📰 The 47 Best Newsletter Articles Of The Week In Product & Growth
📰 The 47 Best Newsletter Articles Of The Week In Product & Growth
October 21st to October 27th
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🧐 Today At A Glance
47 of our favorite product & growth articles, categorized by:
Personal Development (5 articles)
Insights/Thinking (10)
Leadership (5)
Case Study/Allegory (10)
Functional Excellence (10)
Relationships (7)
My favorite article for each category
The top 10 articles that our community clicked on last week
ONWARDS! 🚀🚀🚀
📰 Best 5 Newsletter Posts: Personal Development
Most People Are Reflexive Thinkers. Here’s How To Unlock Breakthrough Ideas
by Nicolas Cole
The Decision-Making Framework That Gave Me Access to the Good Life
by Tim Denning
Similarities between building great products and building a good life
by Kapil P Malhotra
Cone of foresight: an expanded veil of ignorance for our future
How to be a compassionate product manager
by Johnny Chang
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Every week, we review 1000+ articles by authors around the world published over the previous 7 days and that focus on product & growth
We then curate at most 60 articles that we feel our community will enjoy the most
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Insights/Thinking
How Tesla has generated unparalleled operating leverage
by Aakash Gupta
Opportunities in generative AI
Amazon’s Guide To Marketing Psychology
by Abhishek Shah
Defining the return on talent for tech companies
by Tanay Jaipuria
The Design System lifecycle: it’s simply push and pull
The storyteller’s paradox
by Taylor Foreman
WTF is product strategy, really?
by Jordan Dalladay
Five Ways to Address Complexity In Your Product
by Casey Winters
A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale
by Steve Blank
Why Spotify offers a premium mini subscription in India
by Dhananjay Garg
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📰 Best 5 Newsletter Posts: Leadership
The One Management Framework To Lead Your Team To Better Results Without Being An Ass
by Nate Anglin
Underpromise and Overdeliver: Preventing Failed Expectations
by András Juhász
Compassion is a Strategy
by Lindsay Wallace
How the best leadership practices are often obtained through inspiration and example
3 Pathetic Myths Of Leadership And How They Can F**k Your Head Big Time
by Jussi Luukkonen, MBA
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Case Study/Allegory
Duolingo: The App that Changed Education
How Notion Grows
by Jaryd Hermann
How Apple Mastered a 100-Year-Old Strategy Used to Sell Beer
by Teodora Maksimova
Crocs insight to $2.3 billion annual revenues
by Abhishek Patil
How Red Bull Took London By Storm
by Abhishek Shah
How Chrysler Dodged Bankruptcy With 1 Guarantee
by Abhishek Shah
Crocs insight to $2.3 billion annual revenues
by Abhishek Patil
Irving Langmuir, the General Electric Research Laboratory, and when applications lead to theory
by Eric Gilliam
How Faire completes hypothesis-driven analysis
Lessons from Business Turnarounds: Krispy Kreme, Crocs, and Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing
by Rex Woodbury
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Functional Excellence
How Snickers Increases Its Sales by 38% With 1 Simple Change
by Abhishek Shah
Escaping the Product Death Cycle
by Aymen Belarbi
What is a good activation rate
by Lenny Rachitsky and Yuriy Timen
Framing outputs for increasing impact of research
by Jemma Frost
Disruptive design patterns — an uncharted territory
by Renata Venturini
Here’s the Ideal SEO Optimized Blog Post Structure to Rank # 1 on Google
by Hidayatullah
The Secret of Powerful Charts: How PayPal, TikTok, and Airbnb Visualise Their Data
by Liliia Lutsenko
Build or Buy: How We Developed A Platform For A/B Tests
by Olga Berezovsky
7 Agile Estimation Anti-Patterns And How to Fix Them
by Willem-Jan Ageling
Everyone has an Annual Operating Plan until they get punched in the face
by CJ Gustafson
📰 Best 7 Newsletter Posts: Relationships
Three Simple Sentences For Improved Stakeholder Management
by Katrine Tjoelsen
Holding a great skip-level 1:1
The Designer is the most misunderstood role in Product Management
by Paweł Huryn
Why efficient teams always have a plan
by John McTavish
How much should “reputation” actually matter nowadays?
Where are we at with “respect” at work?
Peer mentorship with contemporaries
by David Hoang
⭐ My favorite article this week from each category
Personal Development
Most People Are Reflexive Thinkers. Here’s How To Unlock Breakthrough Ideas
by Nicolas Cole
Insights/Thinking
Amazon’s Guide To Marketing Psychology
by Abhishek Shah
Leadership
How the best leadership practices are often obtained through inspiration and example
Case Study/Allegory
Duolingo: The App that Changed Education
Functional Excellence
What is a good activation rate
by Lenny Rachitsky and Yuriy Timen
Relationships
Peer mentorship with contemporaries
by David Hoang
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🏆 Top 10 Most Popular Articles From Last Week!
Out of the 44 articles we shared last week, the following are the top 10 articles our community clicked on the most.
#10 - A detailed history of BeReal's rise from 0 customers till yesterday
Article Type: Case Study/Allegory
#9 - Working With Very Confident People (Who Dismiss You)
Article Type: Relationships
#8 - A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale
Article Type: Insights/Thinking
#7 - Product Go-to-Market (GTM) Canvas: Define How You Take New Ideas to Market
Article Type: Functional Excellence
#6 - Vital leadership skills of great leaders
Article Type: Leadership
#5 - Growing from Product Manager to Product Leader
Article Type: Leadership
#4 - Focus Is Saying No To Good Ideas
Article Type: Personal Development
#3 - The mental models of Chinese tech
Article Type: Insights/Thinking
#2 - A Definitive Guide to Networking (for Those Who Hate Networking)
Article Type: Personal Development
#1 - The story of a revolutionary product that is used by one-third of all Fortune 500 companies
Article Type: Case Study/Allegory
There you have it! 47 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!