🕯️ Lessons learned from building Wikipedia, 70+ curated resources for designers

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  • Checkout handz.design, a free 3D hand gestures library for your products & marketing
  • Frontendor.com is a library of reusable HTML blocks (pricing tables, heroes, features, footers...etc), so developers can build their own landing pages in minutes by copy-paste. You can download a few blocks for FREE from here
  • Tired of wasting time doing mindless browsing, install Intention chrome extension. And whenever you visit a distracting site, Intention will ask you to commit to a time limit in order to unlock the site. When your time runs out, Intention automatically ends your session
Growth & Sales
3 learnings from Jimmy Wales building an Internet giant (Wikipedia)

1. Your product is an opportunity to build something amazing - not just your wealth.

2. Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. Early on, Wikipedia had a lot of trouble with inaccuracy/plagiarizing. He could have spent $$$ to hire moderators and fix this. But his solution? Just grow the community and let them find the inaccuracies.

3. The strongest motivator is a powerful mission. If you make one edit on Wikipedia, you go to bed knowing you contributed to the world. That it’s at least a little better than you found it.” - Jimmy Wales

Twitter Tip: Link to the intent URL instead of your username

This might be old news to most of you, but if you link to the intents page, twitter will popup a 'Follow' button that should make it more likely for people to actually follow you. Check it in the action here.

Design & UX
Master design thinking with 70+ curated resources

Visit the link to get access to all of the resources.

Miscellaneous
The curse of the format
  • A blog is free
  • A pdf is an email
  • A book is $30
  • A course is $300
  • A coaching is $3000
  • A consulting is $30000

They all have the same content

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How to get better at writing?
  • Write, write and write.
  • Learn more about writing by reading “On Writing” by Stephen King or "Writing Down the Bones." 
  • Watch this Scott Adam's video on writing (35 mins)
  • When you are writing, just write and don't do any editing.
  • Install Grammarly free add-on for rectifying all grammatical mistakes
  • Make your writing more awesome by using Hemingway app
  • Listen to what you have written. Press Ctrl+Shift+U on Microsoft edge to listen to what you wrote.
Worth Reading
1. Writing Effective Headlines for Ads (Excellent Read)
2. I Almost Lost a Client. One Email Turned the Setback Into a Win (Must Read for Freelancers and Agencies)
3. Bootstrapping Lemlist From Zero to $1m ARR in 2 Years
4. How to Make a Profitable Newsletter
5. Yesterday's Launch Was a Mess. Don't Do This

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