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Your AI Is too smart for normal people ☠️
Why investing in your UX is the only way to help your product cross the chasm
Apr 3, 2025
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Nickey Skarstad
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If NOT friend, why friend shaped?
The rise of "friend-tech" via the loneliness epidemic
Mar 27, 2025
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Get in loser, we're going SNARFing!
Stakes, Novelty, Anger, Retention, and Fear - the hidden framework reshaping the products you use everyday
Mar 6, 2025
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Nickey Skarstad
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Why every product is becoming a game
Jan 21, 2025
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Nickey Skarstad
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If NOT friend, why friend shaped?
Mar 27, 2025
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Nickey Skarstad
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🔎 Product Review: Yuka mobile app
Nov 26, 2024
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🔎 Product Review: James Clear’s Atoms
May 1, 2024
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Nickey Skarstad
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📣 I made a bot that will hype your performance at work
Jan 8, 2025
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Nickey Skarstad
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How to create a culture of dogfooding
Jan 2, 2024
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Nickey Skarstad
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Date the models before you commit
Why the smartest builders are keeping their AI integrations flexible
Jan 31, 2025
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Nickey Skarstad
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Why every product is becoming a game
The Dopamine Industrial Complex™️ and how the science of addiction is reshaping product strategy
Jan 21, 2025
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Nickey Skarstad
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📣 I made a bot that will hype your performance at work
Use it to help you get over the ICK of creating visibility for your own work
Jan 8, 2025
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Nickey Skarstad
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🔍 Product Review: Libby app
How a free app could save public libraries (and make reading cool again)
Dec 12, 2024
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Nickey Skarstad
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Stop reading business books (sometimes) 📚
The surprising link between reading fiction and innovation
Dec 5, 2024
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Nickey Skarstad
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🔎 Product Review: Yuka mobile app
How "Making America Healthy Again" will create a new category of apps (and make the Yuka app a cash cow)
Nov 26, 2024
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The high cost of ignoring your community
Lessons from Poshmark’s fee changes and how to turn community trust into your greatest asset
Nov 21, 2024
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