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🧐 Today At A Glance

• 43 of our favorite product & growth articles, segmented by:

  • Personal Development (5 articles)

  • Insights/Thinking (10)

  • Leadership (5)

  • Case Study/Allegory (9)

  • Functional Excellence (10)

  • Relationships (4)

• My favorite article for each category

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

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📰 Best 5 Newsletter Posts: Personal Development

1. Change Your Product Development Process to Build Products More Consciously

   • by Lisa Zane

2. Focus Is Saying No To Good Ideas

   • by Cedric Chin

3. A Scarcity Mindset Feasts on Generational Poverty

   • by John Rampton

4. The danger of playing it safe

   • by Lulu Cheng Meservey

5. A Definitive Guide to Networking (for Those Who Hate Networking)

   • by Deb Liu

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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Insights/Thinking

1. The Precision Modern Company: Shaping it to Focus & Motivate Your Talent

   • by Roger Martin

2. Stepping Stones to Innovation: Why goals make you so uninteresting

   • by Geoff Cook

3. My take on why goal cascades are harmful and what to do instead

   • by Jason Yip

4. A brief history of Super Apps and why lite apps are required to make a comeback.

   • by Dhananjay Garg

5. What most UX designers get wrong about empathy

   • by Eric Chung

6. The Product Death Cycle Trap. Do not let your customers design solutions

   • by Paweł Huryn

7. Hyper-personalization: the future of customer engagement

   • by Nidhi Prakash

8. A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale

   • by Steve Blank

9. Consumer Social Is Dead. Long Live Consumer Social.

   • by Rex Woodbury

10. The mental models of Chinese tech

    • by Lillian Li

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📰 Best 5 Newsletter Posts: Leadership

1. Making Optional Product Practices Stick

   • by John Cutler

2. Vital leadership skills of great leaders

   • by Michael Gruber

3. Women’s Executive Leadership Business Strategies for Success

   • by Syed Reshma

4. Growing from Product Manager to Product Leader

   • by Peter Yang

5. Microsoft Full Circle

   • by Ben Thompson

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📰 Best 9 Newsletter Posts: Case Study/Allegory

1. How Apple Dominated Earwear

   • by Aakash Gupta

2. The story of a revolutionary product that is used by one-third of all Fortune 500 companies

   • by Aishwarya G, Ruchin Kulkarni, and Rahul Krishnan

3. A detailed history of BeReal's rise from 0 customers till yesterday.

   • by Ali Abouelatta

4. How ads will help Netflix accelerate growth

   • by Abhishek Patil

5. How some of the greatest businesses started from zero

   • by Linda Zhang

6. Why Marlboro' Ice blast cigarette sells so well?

   • by Abhishek Patil

7. Inside Similarweb’s $190M growth engine and how PLG unlocks Enterprise customers

   • by Kyle Poyar

8. How Opportunity Mapping Led to a 20% Lift in LTV at Grailed

   • by Melissa Suzuno

9. By appealing to a younger generation of investors, this trading app attracted a $1.5M AUD equity deal

   • by Liisa Rajala

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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Functional Excellence

1. When business goals & user goals are conflicting & why

   • by Akash Mukherjee

2. Product Go-to-Market (GTM) Canvas: Define How You Take New Ideas to Market

   • by Anthony Murphy

3. Developing a customer journey map from first encounter to the “aha moment”

   • by Oleg Yakubenkov

4. Your northstar metric may be broken

   • by Abhishek Patil

5. Some Testing is a Waste of Time: Making Business Cases for Big Bets

   • by Michael Kaminsky, Tom Vladeck & Mike Taylor

6. Trendjacking Without the Cringe

   • by Amanda Natividad

7. Two types of feature retention

   • by Paul Levchuk

8. Shock the System with a Dose of Customer-Centricity

   • by John Rossman

9. Understanding User Pathways in Analytics

   • by Page Laubheimer

10. Mostly experts: Marketplace metrics

    • by CJ Gustafson

📰 Best 4 Newsletter Posts: Relationships

1. Working With Very Confident People (Who Dismiss You)

   • by John Cutler

2. Handling customer escalations calls

   • by PH

3. The Most Ignored Aspect of Quality

   • by Bryan Finster

4. You won’t achieve anything without trust

   • by Ivona Hirschi

⭐ My favorite article this week from each category

Personal Development

Focus Is Saying No To Good Ideas

• by Cedric Chin

Insights/Thinking

The mental models of Chinese tech

• by Lillian Li

Leadership

Vital leadership skills of great leaders

• by Michael Gruber

Case Study/Allegory

A detailed history of BeReal's rise from 0 customers till yesterday.

• by Ali Abouelatta

Functional Excellence

Some Testing is a Waste of Time: Making Business Cases for Big Bets

• by Michael Kaminsky, Tom Vladeck & Mike Taylor

Relationships

Working With Very Confident People (Who Dismiss You)

• by John Cutler

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🏆 Top 10 Most Popular Articles From Last Week!

Out of the 57 articles we shared last week, the following are the top 10 articles our community clicked on the most.

1. Unconventional truths that made me a better PM

   • by Toby Rogers

2. How To Ask A World-Class Question

   • by Jano le Roux

3. Taking Your Customer’s Side Is The Most Underrated Growth Hack

   • by Rachel Greenberg

4. How the Iron Triangle commonly serves as the basis for bad product decisions

   • by Paweł Huryn

5. The Best Leaders in the World Are “Quiet Managers”

   • by Tim Denning

6. How To Be Assertive At Work Without Being a Jackass

   • by Gil Mahesh

7. 6 challenges of gathering analytics of B2B products

   • by Alex A. Szczurek

8. The Subtle Art of Subconscious Sales: Storytelling Strategy

   • by Joseph Seifert

9. How a 60 year-old Indian became the 4th richest person in the world without you knowing him

   • by Aakash Gupta

10. 7 Questions To Find Your Superconsumers, Accelerate Your Data Flywheel, And Uncover Hidden Opportunities

    • by Nicolas Cole

There you have it! 43 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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Until next time, as always, stay well product and growth friends!