Why monetizing your podcast with a listener-supported membership is far less work than you may think. — Ads are the best-known way to monetize your podcast. They work well for some established shows, but they can be time-consuming, distracting and unpredictable. Thankfully, there’s an increasingly popular alternative to podcast advertising: You can convert your listeners into paid subscribers. You get a sustainable, recurring source of revenue (that…

Why subscription revenue is less time-consuming, more predictable, and the future of podcast monetization — You’ve got scripting, interviewing, recording and editing down to a science. Thousands of listeners are eagerly awaiting the next episode of your show. You’ve put years of blood, sweat and tears into building a successful podcast. There’s just one nagging question that keeps you up at night: How is this…

By Yuval Noah Harari — These are notes on ideas and concepts I found interesting — not a comprehensive summary of the book. Buy the book → Unlike Sapiens and (to a lesser extend) Homo Deus, 21 Lessons feels like a collection of good essays with only a handful of truly insightful passages. Those sections…

By Annie Duke — These are my notes on ideas and concepts I found interesting — not a comprehensive summary of the book. Buy the book → Why thinking in bets can help us make better decisions Life is Poker, not Chess The decisions we make in our lives (business, saving and spending, health and lifestyle, relationships, parenting, etc) involve luck, uncertainty, risk, and occasional deception — prominent elements…

By Charles Duhigg — These are notes on ideas and concepts I found interesting — not a comprehensive summary of the book. Buy the book → What are habits? A habit is just a choice that we deliberately made at some point (how to eat, how often to drink, when to go for a jog, etc), and…

What we learned from relaunching our SaaS app and earning #1 on Product Hunt, without alienating everyone around us — Back in March we launched the new Flow, which earned #1 on Product Hunt — the world’s most popular new product community. Getting to #1 contributed to an already successful launch, put Flow on a lot of people’s radars, and drove a huge number of new users into the app. …

By Richard Koch — These are my notes on ideas and concepts I found interesting — not a comprehensive summary of the book. Buy the book → What is the 80/20 Principle? The 80/20 principle (aka the Pareto principle) states that 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not. Thinking 80/20 …

By Chip & Dan Heath — These are my notes on ideas and concepts I found interesting — not a comprehensive summary of the book. Buy the book → What are Sticky Ideas? The ideas most of us traffic in every day are interesting, but not sensational. Truthful, but not mind-blowing. Important, but not ‘life or death’. So which ideas…

By Ryan Holiday — These are my notes on ideas and concepts I found interesting — not a comprehensive summary of the book. Buy the book → I. Perception The Discipline of Perception You will come across obstacles in life — fair and unfair. …