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☯️ On Black and White Thinking
Oct 02, 2024 • 3 min • Thinking
🌍 Notes on A Man Without a Country
Aug 10, 2024 • 3 min • Reading
🙏 28 Principles for 28 Years
Aug 01, 2024 • 4 min • Life
🚸 Proposal for a Less Common Career Path
Jul 31, 2024 • 4 min • Career
🙏 27 Principles for 27 Years
Jul 14, 2023 • 3 min • Life
💭 Notes on Managing Oneself
May 05, 2023 • 3 min • Reading
🧩 Notes on Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Mar 02, 2023 • 9 min • Reading
🗺️ How to Navigate Ambiguous Projects
Feb 01, 2023 • 5 min • Product
📆 2022 Year in Review
Jan 14, 2023 • 5 min • Reflection
🌊 This is Water
Aug 12, 2022 • 3 min • Life
🙏 26 Principles for 26 Years
Aug 02, 2022 • 3 min • Life
📜 Theory, Explained
Jun 28, 2022 • 3 min • Thinking
⌛️ Meditations on Time
Jun 07, 2022 • 3 min • Life
🗺 Exploratory vs. Explanatory Visualization
May 20, 2022 • 3 min • Data Science
🎮 On Multiplayer Analytics
Apr 14, 2022 • 3 min • Data Science
🥫 The Dashboard Maintenance Problem
Apr 02, 2022 • 4 min • Data Science
🧱 Self-Serve Analytics Building Blocks: A Spectrum
Mar 24, 2022 • 4 min • Data Science
🧳 6 Months Digital Nomading: A Review
Mar 03, 2022 • 4 min • Life
🎓 Notes on Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman
Feb 19, 2022 • 3 min • Reading
🗃 Making Dashboards Suck Less
Feb 07, 2022 • 5 min • Data Science
🐪 Notes on The Making of Prince of Persia
Jan 27, 2022 • 4 min • Reading
🧮 Notes on Four Thousand Weeks
Jan 25, 2022 • 10 min • Reading
📲 Towards Modern Data Apps
Jan 21, 2022 • 5 min • Data Science
🎒 Quick Rules for Travel
Jan 10, 2022 • 3 min • Life
📆 2021 Year in Review
Jan 09, 2022 • 8 min • Reflection
🧰 Tools I'm Loving Right Now
Nov 28, 2021 • 5 min • Tech
📜 NLP and Self-Serve Analytics
Nov 19, 2021 • 4 min • Data Science
📓 Reforge Recap: Advanced Growth Strategy
Nov 10, 2021 • 4 min • Growth
💠 Notes on Shape Up
Oct 24, 2021 • 4 min • Reading
🏔 The First 90 Days
Oct 13, 2021 • 4 min • Career
🗺 A Mental Model for Product Design
Sep 10, 2021 • 3 min • Product
🧠 Notes on The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Aug 22, 2021 • 4 min • Reading
📈 Notes on Measure What Matters
Aug 20, 2021 • 3 min • Reading
🚀 What I Learned at Hugo
Aug 17, 2021 • 4 min • Startups
📚 Product Growth Canon
Aug 10, 2021 • 4 min • Growth
🕹 Notes on Designing Games
Jul 30, 2021 • 13 min • Reading
🙏 25 Principles for 25 Years
Jul 16, 2021 • 3 min • Life
🛠 Evaluating Growth Tool Ideas
Jul 14, 2021 • 4 min • Growth
💫 Finding Your Personal Metrics
Jul 07, 2021 • 5 min • Life
📊 Quantified Conor: Q2 2021
Jul 02, 2021 • 5 min • Quantified Self
🧬 Notes on How to Live
Jun 29, 2021 • 17 min • Reading
❤️ Notes on How to Love
Jun 19, 2021 • 7 min • Reading
⚖️ Building Rule-Based Data Products
Jun 11, 2021 • 5 min • Data Science
🧪 The Growth Experiment Process
Jun 08, 2021 • 5 min • Growth
🎮 Building Products for Delight
May 18, 2021 • 4 min • Product
📓 Reforge Recap: Acquisition
Apr 22, 2021 • 6 min • Growth
🤖 Scaling Data and Self-Serve Analytics
Apr 16, 2021 • 5 min • Data Science
📓 Reforge Recap: Engagement + Retention
Apr 13, 2021 • 7 min • Growth
⚡️ My Quantified Self Set-up
Apr 09, 2021 • 7 min • Quantified Self
🕹 Software as a Medium
Apr 02, 2021 • 5 min • Tech
📊 Quantified Conor: Q1 2021
Mar 30, 2021 • 6 min • Quantified Self
🪴 Planting Your Digital Garden
Mar 20, 2021 • 6 min • Writing
🛠 The Modern Startup Analytics Stack
Feb 27, 2021 • 9 min • Data Science
⚾️ Notes on The Mental Game of Baseball
Feb 01, 2021 • 7 min • Reading
🔅 Notes on Awareness
Jan 26, 2021 • 6 min • Reading
📚 Reading Clusters for 2021
Jan 21, 2021 • 3 min • Reading
📆 2020 Year in Review
Jan 16, 2021 • 8 min • Reflection
🎁 User Advocacy and Referral Programs for Growth
Dec 14, 2020 • 4 min • Growth
🌀 At the Center of the Internet
Nov 22, 2020 • 4 min • Tech
📈 Visualizing Retention
Nov 18, 2020 • 5 min • Growth
🎶 Notes on Your Music and People
Nov 14, 2020 • 5 min • Reading
💫 Choosing a Retention Metric
Oct 24, 2020 • 4 min • Growth
🏃♂️ Notes on What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Oct 17, 2020 • 5 min • Reading
🌱 What It Means to Work on Growth
Oct 06, 2020 • 5 min • Growth
📷 Virtual Avatars and Influencers
Oct 01, 2020 • 5 min • Tech
🤖 Replika and Virtual Friends
Sep 18, 2020 • 5 min • Tech
🧙♂️ Playing the Merchant
Aug 26, 2020 • 4 min • Tech
💰 Notes on Monetizing Innovation
Aug 14, 2020 • 3 min • Reading
🔮 On the Future of Newsletters
Aug 08, 2020 • 10 min • Newsletters
📰 Newsletter Audit: August 2020
Aug 02, 2020 • 3 min • Newsletters
📈 Notes on Hacking Growth
Jul 22, 2020 • 5 min • Reading
🙏 24 Principles for 24 Years
Jul 16, 2020 • 3 min • Reflection
✍️ Notes on The Laws of Copywriting
Jul 10, 2020 • 6 min • Writing
👋 Principles for New User Onboarding
Jun 29, 2020 • 12 min • Product
🌍 The Power of Capturing Knowledge in Meetings
Jun 10, 2020 • 6 min • Business
💀 8 Lessons from Masters of Doom
Jun 05, 2020 • 6 min • Reading
⛓ Getting Started with Value Chains
May 30, 2020 • 7 min • Business
🛠 Creating an Idea Development System
May 25, 2020 • 9 min • Writing
📊 A Practical Guide to A/B Testing
May 15, 2020 • 7 min • Data Science
🎲 The Hard Thing About Hard Things in 6 Minutes
May 06, 2020 • 6 min • Reading
🧐 How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
Apr 29, 2020 • 5 min • Thinking
🤝 Why I'm Betting on Hugo
Apr 25, 2020 • 6 min • Career
💡 Where Good Ideas Come From in 5 Minutes
Apr 17, 2020 • 5 min • Reading
🤔 The Nassim Taleb Starter Pack
Apr 04, 2020 • 7 min • Thinking
💣 Barrels and Ammunition
Mar 28, 2020 • 5 min • Career
🌱 High Growth Handbook in 6 Minutes
Mar 24, 2020 • 6 min • Reading
🐿 5 Lessons from Life as a Data Scientist
Mar 20, 2020 • 5 min • Data Science
🚀 How to Search for Startups
Feb 20, 2020 • 8 min • Career
📈 A Framework for Career Decisions
Feb 16, 2020 • 5 min • Career
📋 Why Data Scientists Should Write
Feb 12, 2020 • 4 min • Writing
💻 How I Built My Blog with Gatsby and Ghost
Feb 12, 2020 • 7 min • Development
✏️ Connections Before Advice
Jan 30, 2020 • 3 min • Writing
💪 Strong Identity, Weakly Held
Jan 29, 2020 • 4 min • Life
👋 People Want to Help You
Jan 24, 2020 • 2 min • Life
💯 The Big List of Data Science Interview Resources
Jan 23, 2020 • 6 min • Data Science
🍻 No-Code and WYSIWYG: A Perfect Match
Jan 22, 2020 • 4 min • Product
🧠 Occam's Razor Explained
Jan 20, 2020 • 2 min • Thinking
⚡️ Searching for Energy
Jan 17, 2020 • 3 min • Life
⏳ The Perils of Unchecked Inaction
Jan 16, 2020 • 3 min • Thinking
🔥 The Simmering Six
Jan 15, 2020 • 3 min • Life
📆 2019 Year in Review
Jan 13, 2020 • 8 min • Reflection
🙏 23 Principles for 23 Years
Jul 29, 2019 • 3 min • Reflection
✏️ Learning in Ways That Don’t Scale
Jul 22, 2019 • 4 min • Life
📊 Practical Psychology for Data Scientists
Jun 30, 2019 • 8 min • Data Science
🐦 The Twitter Experiment
Jun 05, 2019 • 4 min • Life
🛌 One Perfect Mattress for Everyone: 6 Lessons from Casper’s Success
May 27, 2019 • 5 min • Business
📝 Why I Quit the Medium Partner Program
May 27, 2019 • 6 min • Writing
🤔 Data Scientists Are Thinkers
May 11, 2019 • 5 min • Data Science
📚 10 Reads for Data Scientists Getting Started with Business Models
May 02, 2019 • 6 min • Business
👤 The Single-Player Mindset
Apr 29, 2019 • 4 min • Life
🚀 What Should Onboarding Look Like for Data Scientists?
Apr 18, 2019 • 7 min • Data Science
📚 What I’ve Been Reading Lately
Apr 11, 2019 • 7 min • Reading
🗣 Compilation of Advice for New and Aspiring Data Scientists
Apr 02, 2019 • 6 min • Data Science
🎒 I Backpacked Solo Across Europe for 3 Months
Mar 29, 2019 • 12 min • Life
🔢 MVA: Minimum Viable Analysis
Mar 19, 2019 • 5 min • Data Science
📰 13 Essential Newsletters for Data Scientists
Mar 17, 2019 • 6 min • Data Science
👊 Reasons Don’t Matter: A Lesson from Steve Jobs
Mar 09, 2019 • 4 min • Business
🏁 Your Goals Won’t Motivate You
Feb 25, 2019 • 5 min • Life
🌎 How to Think About Travel
Feb 13, 2019 • 6 min • Life
📊 5 Lessons from a Data Science Intern at a Tech Unicorn
Aug 06, 2018 • 7 min • Data Science
🏆 5 Resources to Inspire Your Next Data Science Project
Aug 01, 2018 • 6 min • Data Science
📖 Every Chapter of Thinking Fast, and Slow in 7 Minutes
Jul 31, 2018 • 7 min • Reading
❌ Analyzing More Than 80 Job Rejections with Python
Jul 19, 2018 • 6 min • Data Science
🙏 22 Principles for 22 Years
Jul 16, 2018 • 3 min • Reflection
🔢 The Role of Combinatorics in Text Classification
Jul 15, 2018 • 4 min • Data Science
🧳 Big List of 50+ Data Science Internships
Jul 12, 2018 • 4 min • Data Science
📝 5 Insights From Writing Every Single Day
Jul 10, 2018 • 8 min • Writing
📊 Deconstructing Metrics on Medium
Jul 09, 2018 • 12 min • Data Science
💯 An Ode to the Type A Data Scientist
Jun 28, 2018 • 7 min • Data Science
🛠 Choosing Your First Job: Size Matters
Jun 26, 2018 • 7 min • Career
💻 Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp Review
Jun 25, 2018 • 5 min • Data Science
👨💻 The Key to Optimal Internships
Jun 22, 2018 • 5 min • Career
☝️ Stop Cheating Yourself out of Great Ideas
Jun 20, 2018 • 6 min • Life
💡 Keeping Innovation in Perspective
Jun 14, 2018 • 3 min • Business
🗣 The Edge You Need at Your Next Interview
Jun 11, 2018 • 5 min • Career
🔢 Python for Data Science: 8 Concepts You May Have Forgotten
Jun 08, 2018 • 7 min • Data Science
💰 Why I Spend $5 Monthly on Medium
Jun 08, 2018 • 5 min • Reading
💼 When Your Job Is Done as a Data Scientist
Jun 07, 2018 • 4 min • Data Science
🏠 Principles to Remember from Joe Gebbia: Co-Founder of Airbnb
Jun 01, 2018 • 6 min • Self-Improvement
🙅♂️ Don’t Be an Aspiring Entrepreneur
May 31, 2018 • 4 min • Business
🛫 Intern Insights San Francisco: Week 1
May 29, 2018 • 6 min • Career
🤪 Want to Supercharge Your Productivity? Be Delusional.
May 29, 2018 • 3 min • Life
🗣 I Haven’t Found My Voice Yet
May 23, 2018 • 4 min • Writing
🧑💻 7 Key Ideas from Tim Ferriss and His Tribe of Mentors
May 08, 2018 • 6 min • Life
🏀 Machine Learning Madness: Predicting Every Tournament Matchup
Mar 15, 2018 • 6 min • Data Science
👏 How I Built Trump Sentiment Tracker
Sep 06, 2017 • 6 min • Data Science
📓 Everything I Wish I Knew My Freshman Year
Aug 04, 2017 • 7 min • Reflection
🙌 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Machine Learning in Python
Aug 01, 2017 • 9 min • Data Science
🐉 Game of Thrones Season Premiere Twitter Analysis
Jul 21, 2017 • 6 min • Data Science
☕️ The 5 Proven Best Ways to Start Your Day
Jul 15, 2017 • 4 min • Life
🛠 5 Lessons From Going Idea to Prototype in 24 Hours
Jul 12, 2017 • 5 min • Product