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How community leaders can supercharge their communities: - Daily/weekly intros - Highlighting members - IRL > virtual hangouts > text chats - Ask many questions - Proactively make worthwhile connections - Wish people happy birthdays, anniversaries etc. - Small group classes

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“One of the big barriers with computers today is certainly the physical interface, but this isn’t a technology problem,” he says. “The bigger part of it is just in finding the right ways of thinking, finding the right representations of abstractions, so people can think thoughts that they couldn’t think before. “The example I like to give is back in the days of Roman numerals, basic multiplication was considered this incredibly technical concept that only official mathematicians could handle,” he continues. “But then once Arabic numerals came around, you could actually do arithmetic on paper, and we found that 7-year-olds can understand multiplication. It’s not that multiplication itself was difficult. It was just that the representation of numbers — the interface — was wrong.”

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2/ Usage metrics Key question: How are users using the product? Examples: time-of-day/day-of-week trends, top N actions, funnel metrics, help docs usage, retention, password reset rate,...

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