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“Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”
Are You a High Agency Person? How to Respond When You Hear ‘No’
Ryan Holiday
Customer onboarding is a great starting point to get your users to not drop off. But it is only one part of the act. Engagement comes next.
*Every product is playing one of three games*. Either you are playing to win attention, transactions, or productivity.
1. In the **attention game**, products are trying to maximize the time end users spend on their platform. eg. Netflix & Facebook
2. The **transaction game** requires products to help customers make purchase decisions with confidence. e.g. Flipkart & Amazon
3. The **productivity game** requires products to create an easy and reliable way to complete an existing task or workflow. e.g. Salesforce & Asana
Here's a simple framework to test your own product's engagement:
* __What’s my recurring unit of value exchange?__
* __How can I make each subsequent exchange more valuable?__
Product : Engagement | Stoa Learning
Stoa School
in an early startup, your sole focus is to search for a product, and these "best practices" can slow down this search. Try optimizing for change, by using low-abstraction copy-paste, all in one place, with no tests. Distribute your app manually, and onboard people manually.
How to Evolve a Product
Jim Fisher
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