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One key here is to understand that usually when you strug-
gle, it’s not your fault. Far too many people waste weeks
if not months trying to understand explanations that were
simply not written to be understood. After some time they
then conclude, "well, things are complicated", memorize a
few key facts and move on. This is how fragile knowledge is
born.
Teach Yourself Physics
Jakob Schwichtenberg
As soon as it appeared, Prussian Blue caused a sensation in European art. Thanks to its lower price, in just a few years it had all but replaced the colour that painters had used since the Renaissance to depict the robes of the angels and the Virgin’s mantle—ultramarine, the finest and costliest of all blue pigments, which was obtained by grinding lapis lazuli brought up from caves in Afghanistan’s Kochka river valley.
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut
This is exactly what happened with Dropbox. While developing their product, they tested search engine marketing and found it wouldn’t work for their business. They were acquiring customers for $230 when their product cost only $99. That’s when they focused on the viral marketing traction channel, and built a referral program right into their product. This program has since been their biggest growth driver.
Traction
Gabriel Weinberg
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