July 12, 2022

This is Kei and Kazuki, founders of Glasp ๐Ÿ‘‹

We are sending you 3 good articles to highlight this week. Hopefully, it will bring you new perspectives and help you develop your career and learning journey. (you can read this newsletter online!)

๐Ÿ“š This Week's Reading List

Creativity Is a Process, Not an Event by James Clear (7min)
Creative thinking requires our brains to make connections between seemingly unrelated ideas. Even some claim that โ€œI'm just not the creative typeโ€ is a pretty weak excuse for avoiding creative thinking. Your creative skills are primarily determined by whether you approach the creative process with a fixed mindset or a growth mindset.
๐Ÿ”— Glasp Community Highlights
๐Ÿ” more content in #Thinking

Shipping is a Feature: Some Guiding Principles for People That Build Things by Michael Copeland (6min)
Shipping is a feature. Every PM knows this but it is also the hardest thing to get right. As a PM you throw around things like โ€œthe enemy of the good is the perfectโ€ or, well, โ€œshipping is a featureโ€ all the time, yet we all have a hard time getting a product out the door. Thereโ€™s always more to do to get it right. Once you release the product you begin a new adventure building the next iteration.
๐Ÿ”— Glasp Community Highlights
๐Ÿ” more content in #Product Management

What is good retention by Lenny Rachitsky (8min)
Although retention is widely considered to be the most important metric to get right when building (and investing in) a business, itโ€™s also one of the least understood. Why? Because unless youโ€™re a growth expert or an experienced investor, youโ€™re often relying on anecdotes, dated blog posts, and misguided benchmarks. It's the best indicator of product-market fit, it is the most important factor in a userโ€™s lifetime value, and high retention drives all of the best acquisition strategies.
๐Ÿ”— Glasp Community Highlights
๐Ÿ” more content in #Retention

๐Ÿ“ฃ Community News

  • ๐ŸŸฅ Product Updates
  • You can set color labels and show the definition of your color choice on your profile page. Look at this tweet to see how to do it ๐Ÿ‘€
  • ๐ŸŸฉ Community Meetup
  • We had a community meetup last Friday and Saturday. We were glad to see everyone there, thank you for comingโœจ We will have it the second week of August again, so we hope to see you all again๐Ÿค
  • ๐ŸŸง Reading Campaign
  • We will start this month's #read5for5 campaign next week. Please stay tuned for further details this Sunday.
  • ๐ŸŸฆ Article
  • We published an article, "The Greatest Legacy for Future Generations." This is a translated one from a book that was published in 1897. We are influenced by the book a lot, so we hope you read it, too๐Ÿ“š

โค๏ธ Gratitude

  • Thank you, everyone, for sharing and mentioning us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and in your blogs ๐Ÿ™‚ We really appreciate all of your support! Please feel free to ask us anything at any time and looking forward to meeting you at the community meetup ๐Ÿค

You can see Glasp featured curators from here ๐Ÿ’Ž

Hope you enjoyed reading this newsletter!
See you next week ;)

Best,
Kei and Kazuki

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Today's Quote: โ€œThere is no institution more powerful than the institution of your mind.โ€ โ€” Naide P. Obiang

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