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🧐 Today At A Glance

• 50 new articles published this week segmented by the following categories:

  • Product Management (10 articles)

  • Growth (10)

  • Leadership & Strategy (10)

  • Experimentation & Analysis (10)

  • Agile & Product Ownership (10)

• My favorite article for each category

• The top 10 articles that our community clicked on last week

ONWARDS! 🚀🚀🚀

📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Product

1. 10 Dials that PMs Need to Balance

   • by Aatir Abdul Rauf

2. The New PMF: A Candidate Framework for Company Selection and Evaluation

   • by Adam Fishman

3. Do you really need a North Star Metric?

   • by Aakash Gupta

4. Human-in-the-loop Machine Learning (HITL): How to Master it, Simplified

   • by Anil Tilbe

5. How To Cultivate A Prototype Mindset

   • by Oluwatobi Omotosho

6. DevRel Explained for Product Managers

   • by Richard Holmes

7. How to quickly build a solid foundation to be effective when starting a new Product Managment role.

   • by Saeed Khan

8. How can you improve your Design Thinking

   • by Goutam Manishi

9. What designers can learn from chess

   • by Joanna Ngai

10. How to ship your way to product market fit through small, stable, high-impact releases

    • by Joseph Mwangi

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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Growth

1. The growth strategies behind Pendo's $150M+ ARR, 6000+ customers and $2.6B+ valuation (IPO upcoming?)

   • by Arjun Rakesh, Rahul Krishnan, and Ruchin Kulkarni

2. How to use content and community to drive user growth

   • by Leo Luo

3. How to turn your research questions into interview questions.

   1. by Jennifer Hall

4. How time to value and product complexity shape user activation

   • by Oleg Yakubenkov

5. How to build your growth engine to scale

   • by Lenny Rachitsky

6. The Market Side of Product/Market Fit

   • by Martina Lauchengco

7. Marketing Strategies I Used to Grow my Bootstrapped Startup to $40k Monthly Revenue as a Solo Founder.

   • by Paula Barragán

8. 5 growth hacks that took companies from 1 to 100

   • by Sahil Sapru

9. Inventing Demand

   • by Byrne Hobart

10. Why is HardTech so Effing Hard? Well, are you prepared to build a factory?

    • by DC Palter

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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Leadership & Strategy

1. What Makes for a Great Strategist?

   • by Roger Martin

2. Case Study: How Yahoo! lost the internet [Lessons in Bad Strategy]

   • by Bandan Jot Singh

3. 6 things I would’ve done differently for PM recruitment

   • by Kevin Zhang

4. How can Product Managers combine the frameworks for creating Competitive Strength Assessment?

   • by Zeynep Cansu Yildirim

5. Communication, collaboration, coordination: The 3 Cs guiding successful cross-functional teams

   • by Liam Keegan & Kate Sugrue

6. Not on the same page? How the concept of “thought levels” can improve collaboration

   • by Chris Pokrzywa

7. High Performing Teams: Super Goals & Super Identity

   • by Scott Middleton

8. Virtual Insanity — Tired of Your Team-building Activities? Try These

   • by John Hartley

9. Strategy is about today: Don’t let yourself be too distracted by the future

   • by Svyatoslav Biryulin

10. How Consensus Kills Innovation

    • by Braden Kelley

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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Experimentation & Analysis

1. Get 200% More Clicks With Magnet Words In Your Titles (30+ Examples)

   • by Christopher Kokoski

2. Trend forecasting for product managers — how to predict the future

   • by Bart Krawczyk

3. Users testing — 4 things you’re doing wrong

   • by Patryk Nawrocki

4. Product metrics — complete list.

   • by Alex A. Szczurek

5. How To Increase Signup Confirmation Rates

   • by Dan Benoni & Louis-Xavier Lavallée

6. User testing for introverts

   • by Garima Sharma

7. My 4-step process for analyzing user research

   • by Kira Street

8. Simpson’s Paradox: Explained in Simple Terms

   • by Farid Asadi

9. How to Leverage Customer Data to Increase Product Adoption

   • by Arpit Choudhury

10. The art of experiments, the quantitative side of aspects of craft in product

    • by David Hoang

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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Agile & Product Ownership

1. How LEGO used Agile Principles to Accelerate Innovation

   • by Rita McGrath

2. How to Avoid the Feature Fallacy Trap

   • by Andrea Saez

3. Outcome-Based Product Planning

   • by Stefan Walpers

4. Wrap Up Product Manager Role With The Lean Product Playbook

   • by Mella Aulia Agusty

5. …but some models are useful

   • by William Bartlett

6. Successful Agility In Product Delivery Requires Dynamic Implementation

   • by Jonathan Essary

7. Agile Anti-Patterns: Sprint-Anti-Patterns

   • by David Theil

8. Issue trackers considered harmful

   • by Sigurd Seteklev

9. The Breakthrough Stephen Covey Habit Product Managers Can Practice to Radically Increase Their OKR Delivery Effectiveness

   • by Michael Goitein

10. The Demotion of Scrum Into Waterfall

    • by David Pereira

⭐ My favorite article this week from each category

Product

What designers can learn from chess

• by Joanna Ngai

Growth

Marketing Strategies I Used to Grow my Bootstrapped Startup to $40k Monthly Revenue as a Solo Founder.

• by Paula Barragán

Leadership & Strategy

Not on the same page? How the concept of “thought levels” can improve collaboration

• by Chris Pokrzywa

Experimentation & Analysis

How To Increase Signup Confirmation Rates

• by Dan Benoni & Louis-Xavier Lavallée

Agile & Product Ownership

Successful Agility In Product Delivery Requires Dynamic Implementation

• by Jonathan Essary

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🏆 Top 10 Most Popular Articles From Last Week!

Out of the 42 articles we shared last week, the following are the top 10 articles our community clicked on the most.

1. Why ordinary design (almost) always wins

   • by Nick Babich

2. How To Lead A Brainstorming Session Like A Product Manager

   • by Ian Khor

3. The top Product Managers you can learn from— right now

   • by Manan Modi

4. Growth Strategies Applied By Monzo, A London-Based Neobank

   • by Tom Blomfield

5. Understanding Product-Led Growth

   • by Tosin Toge

6. How to design a referral program

   • by Andrew Chen

7. 5 Growth experiments that broke the internet

   • by Abhishek Patil

8. WTF is “Strategy”?

   • by Akash Mukherjee

9. How to prioritize effectively — as a new or aspiring product manager

   • by Manan Modi

10. Why “MVP” is the most misused term in tech

    • by Aakash Gupta

There you have it! 50 of the best articles of the last week, my favorites, and the top 10 favorites of our community from the previous week.

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