A framework for good writing.

1. Use draft 1 to find your novel ideas, which are:

• Counter-intuitive
• Counter-narrative
• Shock and awe

2. Draft 2 is for making those novel ideas stick—via:

• Stories
• Analogies
• Examples

Writing quality = Novelty x Resonance

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Email marketing tactics 👇

People reflexively ignore welcome emails after signup.

• Delay welcome emails by 45min to bypass this reflex

• Send the email from a person—not the business. Julian Shapiro is more human than
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• Use unique subjects:
👎 Welcome
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Make it seamless to refer

• Remind readers at the end of each issue that they can refer others. Include a link.

• Have a web version of every issue so they can be easily shared outside of email

• Consider rewards: Send a monthly bonus issue for referring 5 friends

SEO can be a vanity metric if it doesn't convert to leads.

• Offer readers quizzes to identify the best products for them. Require an email to see results.

• Create Buyer's Guides: Make PDFs with nice visuals to help readers learn skills. Require an email.

When pitching your newsletter on your site:

• Show a sample issue on the page. Prove how high quality your content is.

• Give them control over how often they get emailed. Some want weekly, but others REALLY want monthly. High volume can burn you and your readers out.

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"I really want to break into Product Management"

make products.

"If only someone would tell me how I can get a startup to notice me."

Make Products.

"I guess it's impossible and I'll never break into the industry."

MAKE PRODUCTS.

Courtesy of @edbrisson's wonderful thread on breaking into comics –
https://t.co/TgNblNSCBj – here is why the same applies to Product Management, too.


There is no better way of learning the craft of product, or proving your potential to employers, than just doing it.

You do not need anybody's permission. We don't have diplomas, nor doctorates. We can barely agree on a single standard of what a Product Manager is supposed to do.

But – there is at least one blindingly obvious industry consensus – a Product Manager makes Products.

And they don't need to be kept at the exact right temperature, given endless resource, or carefully protected in order to do this.

They find their own way.
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Symptomatic people are tested for one and only one respiratory virus. This means that other acute respiratory infections are reclassified as


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It is tested exquisitely with a hypersensitive non-specific RT-PCR test / Ct >35 (>30 is nonsense, >35 is madness), without considering Ct and clinical context. This means that more acute respiratory infections are reclassified as


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The Drosten RT-PCR test is fabricated in a way that each country and laboratory perform it differently at too high Ct and that the high rate of false positives increases massively due to cross-reaction with other (corona) viruses in the "flu


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Even asymptomatic, previously called healthy, people are tested (en masse) in this way, although there is no epidemiologically relevant asymptomatic transmission. This means that even healthy people are declared as COVID


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Deaths within 28 days after a positive RT-PCR test from whatever cause are designated as deaths WITH COVID. This means that other causes of death are reclassified as