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Doing science involves asking great questions, formulating hypotheses, designing ways to test them, and persisting through repeated failure. We call both activities “science,” but they’re completely different. Often, students who are great at learning science struggle to do science because it’s too demoralizing.
Growth Levers and How to Find Them
Matt Lerner
Go out and figure out how to make $500 *this weekend*.
Collect a deposit. Sell a service. Get somebody to hand you cash or send it to your bank account. Convince them to give you their money in exchange for your work. Go get sweaty.
The Sweaty Startup
Nick Huber
Substack is still in Phase 1.
In 2019, the platform raised $15.3 million from one of the most well-known venture capital firms in Silicon Valley—Andreesen Horowitz (a16z). This means some very smart people are betting on the growth of the category of “paid newsletters” for writers and media creators. If this category continues to grow, and Substack is the creator of this category, then you better believe the platform is going to grow exponentially over the next five plus years.
For this reason, I’ve already [moved my own newsletter over to Substack.](https://howiwrotethis.substack.com/)
The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
Nicolas Cole
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