Steal My 36 Learnings From This Week | Snapshot Week #34

#entrepreneurship + #design + #productivity + #writing + #marketing + #books-for-team-management

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Here, I’m sharing 36 learnings of the week. These learnings are the ones that I have derived from others’ writings. I’ve quoted the article’s source as well as the authors’ name because I’m a huge believer in gratitude.

Before jumping into the learnings, you might want to read the why and the how of this article. Trust me, the process is interesting. You’d like adopting the same.

#Entrepreneurship

• Bonus points for products that are connected to people’s passion or to a deep or serious need, and of course for products that run out and need to be purchased again and again (Not just consumables). | Moshe Hurwitz
• Execute the MVMF and truly understand the mindset behind MVP bringing this testing velocity into your daily life. | Nitesh S
• The first rule of building a valuable product is that it should be valuable for someone. Meaning, an actual, real-life person (or many such people) should have some problem or desire addressed because of your work. | Julie Zhuo
• “It’s precisely this sort of observation-fueled insight that makes innovation possible.” — Tom Kelley, The Art of Innovation. | Rolando Mathias
• Dumb it down. Then dumb it down some more. And ignore objections about dumbing it down. | Andreas Goeldi
• Establish a “Profitable” Rather Than “Fundable” Business entity | Sarath Cp

#Design

• “At a basic level, having user experience empathy means to think of the needs and motivations of your users and not yourself.” | Rena Kuai
• Not only are case studies great opportunities to communicate execution but communicate how your thinking as a group of designers, as a person and how your approach reflects the result. | Jack Strachan
• Tell the story of your project in phases. Discovery.Exploration. Design. | Martin Sitar
• Context matters, but context switching is costly | Nirzar Pangarkar
• CTAs should help make an online experience effortless | Rachel McConnell
• Our parents taught us to “give before we take.” User onboarding is a good time to remember that advice, and let your users have what they want before you start asking for what you want. | InVision

#Productivity

• I want you to start at number one don’t even think about number two until number one is complete. | Mayo Oshin
• When you raise the quality of your attention, you’ll inevitably raise the quality of your life. | Srinivas Rao
• Thanks for thinking of me. I’m off the grid until X date but let’s connect when I’m back again. | Tim Denning
• You need more space o breathe, not more things to do. | Michele Lian
• By far the most significant learning experience in adulthood involves critical self-reflection — reassessing the way we have posed problems and reassessing our own orientation to perceiving, knowing, believing, feeling and acting. Jack Mezirow | Michal Korzonek
• It’s in the spaces between tasks that we defragment our thoughts | A Life of Productivity

#Writing

• If ego had nothing to do with it, you would write in a journal. | Jonathan Greene
• If all you have is the blog itself, then you are essentially running a long and expensive advertisement, while having nothing to sell. | Tim Rettig
• But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thoughts. George Orwell | Harry J. Stead
• Writing — not coding — is design’s unicorn skill.| Derek Mei
• The allure of writing is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. | Erika Chaudhary
• Most of your true fans don’t even know about you yet! This is why you need to consistently distribute your content to new audiences. | George Kao

#Marketing

• Content marketing planned is often not content marketing that works | Mitch Joel
• Marketing is part science, part creativity. Never one or the other. | Matt Zelasko
• Social media used to be the go-to marketing tool, but it’s been surpassed by its old-fashioned counterpart: email. | Brian Greenberg
• A consistent brand identity can make all the difference to your content. | Chris Bow
• The easiest lead magnet is a tip sheet — make a list of 25 tips you can offer or a how-to resource guide. | Jim Katzaman - Get Debt-Free One Family at a Time
• 43 percent of people skim blog posts. Headlines, sub-headlines, videos, images, and graphics make content easier to consume. | Yaroslav Stepanenko

#BooksForTeamManagement

• The Step-Up Mindset for New Managers
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
• Kindness in Leadership
• The Leader’s Guide to Managing People: How to Use Soft Skills to Get Hard Results
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
• Managing Difficult People in a Week

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