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What is Hanlon’s Razor and how can you use it (With Examples!)What is Hanlon’s Razor and how can you use it (With Examples!)
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What is Hanlon’s Razor and how can you use it (With Examples!)

Do you feel angered, disturbed, or annoyed by some recent event? Personal or Global? Who do you assign the blame for such an event? And do you think that person did it out of malice? Are they evil? If you take 100 such events, how many would you attribute to intentional malice? Not sure? That’s …

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How to figure out the 20% effort that will give you 80% results | Applying Pareto’s PrincipleHow to figure out the 20% effort that will give you 80% results | Applying Pareto’s Principle
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How to figure out the 20% effort that will give you 80% results | Applying Pareto’s Principle

Most things in life come from outsized results. The relationship between inputs and outputs is non-linear. In our minds, we think it’s linear, but the data suggests otherwise. The relationship is a power law, better defined as Pareto’s principle or sometimes also called the 80/20 rule. Let’s see a few examples of where Pareto’s principle …

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What Are Mental Models & Why Are They Important (With A Simple Example)What Are Mental Models & Why Are They Important (With A Simple Example)
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What Are Mental Models & Why Are They Important (With A Simple Example)

This is an introduction to mental models and how they can be used in decision making. A simple example of the Goldilocks rule is provided along with 3 applications and 1 case where it doesn’t apply. Keywords to include: Mental Model

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Rock Bottom to Rocket Ship🚀 | How Veed grew to $5M+ ARRRock Bottom to Rocket Ship🚀 | How Veed grew to $5M+ ARR
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Rock Bottom to Rocket Ship🚀 | How Veed grew to $5M+ ARR

Listen Up! IH – Episode 24 “Keep pushing, and make something people search for” 👆 That’s Sabba Keynejad’s message to Indie Hackers. Sabba is the Co-founder of Veed.io – a browser-based video editing tool. Sabba and his co-founder Tim grew the company from 0 to 50,000 users in just 6 months. And with no marketing budget. Their growth …

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Kindness and Community | Rosie Sherry👼Kindness and Community | Rosie Sherry👼
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Kindness and Community | Rosie Sherry👼

Community Wisdom from Rosie Sherry – how she started Ministry of Testing, why she doesn’t do customer research, her advice for other community builders.

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What is Hanlon’s Razor and how can you use it (With Examples!)What is Hanlon’s Razor and how can you use it (With Examples!)
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What is Hanlon’s Razor and how can you use it (With Examples!)

Do you feel angered, disturbed, or annoyed by some recent event? Personal or Global? Who do you assign the blame for such an event? And do you think that person did it out of malice? Are they evil? If you take 100 such events, how many would you attribute to intentional malice? Not sure? That’s …

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Ideas you can run with🏃‍♂️Ideas you can run with🏃‍♂️
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Ideas you can run with🏃‍♂️

“The most exciting business Ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin” – Carmine Gallo 👆 That is the spirit with which every successful Indie Hacker business starts. Chris Justin and Eathan Janney understand this. They are the hosts of the “Run With It” podcast. On the weekly show, they discuss interesting business ideas …

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21 Lessons from 21 Indie Hackers21 Lessons from 21 Indie Hackers
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21 Lessons from 21 Indie Hackers

Listen Up! IH – Episode 21 Hey folks👋 This newsletter has been running for the last 20 weeks. I have gone down some interesting rabbit holes when doing these profiles. Learnt a lot in the process. Many of you have joined recently or midway and might not have read the initial posts. So I thought …

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Digital Nomad to Prolific Indie Hacker | Pieter Levels 🧳Digital Nomad to Prolific Indie Hacker | Pieter Levels 🧳
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Digital Nomad to Prolific Indie Hacker | Pieter Levels 🧳

Lessons from legendary Indie Hacker Pieter Levels, founder of Nomad List ,RemoteOk.io and many more profitable internet businesses.

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