Andrew Chen top essays 2024

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https://andrewchen.substack.com/p/best-of-2024-essays-list

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• How novelty effects and Dopamine Culture rule the tech industry: AI apps with shitty retention, consumers with zero patience, and what happens next
• The case against morning yoga, daily routines, and endless meetings: How to maximize 10x work and avoid thoughtless daily 1x work routines
• 10 years after "Growth Hacking": What's changed and what's new
• How AI will reinvent Marketing: What happens in a world of infinite labor, infinite content, and mass personalization
• Time sinks and money sinks: How business models drive product design and user behavior
• Why data-driven product decisions are hard (sometimes impossible): All the excuses we make when we see data, but why that's sometimes OK
• Why high growth, high churn products never seem to work: yes, D30 ends up dominating over random social media spikes
• The end of the 1 billion active user ad-supported consumer startup: And why highly-monetizing, useful, vertical apps might be the next thing
• Bureaucrat mode: The road to hell is paved via collaboration, consensus, inclusiveness, stability
• Always Be Launching: Because tbh no one gives a shit about your new product, anyway
• Why your product idea sounds too complicated: The "simple" to "WTF" scale of product complexity

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10 years after Growth Hacking - by Andrew Chen.pdf
Always Be Launching - by Andrew Chen - @andrewchen.pdf
Bureaucrat mode - by Andrew Chen - @andrewchen.pdf
How AI will reinvent Marketing - by Andrew Chen.pdf
How novelty effects and Dopamine Culture rule the tech industry.pdf
The case against morning yoga, daily routines, and endless meetings.pdf
The end of the 1 billion active user ad-supported consumer startup.pdf
Time sinks and money sinks - by Andrew Chen - @andrewchen.pdf
Why data-driven product decisions are hard (sometimes impossible).pdf
Why high growth, high churn products never seem to work.pdf

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• A City on Mars. Here’s a detailed discussion on what it actually takes to build a colony on Mars. tldr; it’s a lot more complicated than you’d think. Talks through everything from tech, societal issues, political issues, space law, etc.
• Things I’ll Never Forget, The Vietnam War, In the Dragon’s Shadow. Couple of the books we read on our trip, a memoir, a Ken Burns companion book, and a book discussing China’s relationship with each SE Asian country
• The Corporation That Changed the World. The history of the East India Company, including its initial formation, the competition with the Dutch (and their charter company, the VOC), how it worked, and their eventual decline. Super interesting in how it touched many parts of Asia including India, China, and SE Asia too.
• The Maniac. The history of John von Neumann, World War 2, AlphaGo, AI. What more could you want!??
• Lots of sci-fi, including Player of Games (Culture series, set in a post-AI/post-economic universe), Delta-V (space mining), Old Man’s War (military scifi), etc etc.