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Three Kinds of SEO
There are three kinds of SEO: technical, programmatic, and editorial. Technical SEO is about setting up the right infrastructure for pages including page speed, internal link architecture, redirects, and so on.
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Stutz (Literary Notes)
Stutz is a documentary that is ostensibly about therapy, but is really about the endearing relationship between Jonah Hill and his therapist.
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When to Do SEO
Before investing in SEO, evaluate whether or not it has the potential to have a large impact on your business.
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How to Do SEO
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What Does Customer Success Do at a Startup?
At an early-stage B2B SaaS startup, customer success has one responsibility: make sure customers don’t churn.
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The Line Between Micro Management and Leadership
When things are going poorly, a natural response is for managers to get closer to the details.
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Turn Every Weakness Into a Strength
When building products, we’re constantly aware of how imperfect the things we build are.
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Accrued Vacation Policies Are Better Than Unlimited PTO
The problem with unlimited vacation days is that it creates a bimodal distribution of usage—some employees take too little time off and some employees take way too much time off.
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Time Saved Using Keyboard Shortcuts
I use Alfred to switch between applications using keyboard shortcuts. On average, I use Alfred 127 times per day, mostly to use keyboard shortcuts.
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Areas of Responsibility List
An AOR list (areas of responsibility) prevents a tragedy of the commons at your company.
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Use Impeccable Agreements for Better Productivity and Morale
Impeccable agreements create accountability and motivation. This improves productivity and morale for high-performing teams.
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Typing Fast Is Thinking With Your Hands
Knowledge work is often limited by time spent thinking versus doing, but typing fast helps you think faster.
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Why All My Business Writing Is in LaTeX
In my day-to-day business dealings, people are surprised when they receive LaTeX-generated documents for business proposals, memos, etc.
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Hope Is Fear in Disguise
It’s obvious that living life without fear is a good thing, but what about life without hope?
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Knowledge Capture Loops Make for Good Systems
Real world systems for operating a complicated process don’t start out perfectly designed complete systems.
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The Default Strategy for Dependencies Should Be to Not Add More
Adding new dependencies to a codebase is a net positive until it’s not.
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Customer Success Overcomes Technical Hurdles
As much as product builders want to be self-serve and low-touch, there will always be limitations and improvements to make.
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The Great Nothing
There is a patch of the cosmos which is 300 million light years across with significantly fewer galaxies.
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Fear Is Bad Advice
Being afraid of something can cause us to make the exact wrong decision because fear is bad advice.
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The Great CEO Within
A self-coaching book about coaching Matt Mochary. Links to this note Areas of Responsibility List
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Separate the Triage Room From the Waiting Room
Hospitals separate the triage room from the waiting room otherwise you would have patients with time-sensitive medical issues waiting and dying.
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Schedule Time Every Day to Work on Your Top Goal
It’s easy to get swept away by requests from other people and other demands on your time.
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The Downside of First-Principles Thinking
The problem with first-principles thinking is that you don’t know what you don’t know.
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Every Paragraph Should Have a BLUF
The first sentence of every paragraph should be a BLUF. Readers can see the point right away without having to read through the entire paragraph.