Creator Cameo with Zoe Chew

This piece is written by Peter Yang. My key takeaways are: (1) Exceed user expectations by personally welcoming new members. (2) Overcome the cold start problem by seeding the community with great content. (3) Deliver great UX by focusing the conversation on a few channels. (4 min read)

I enjoy reading all things tech and digital space. This article from Tanay Jaipuria highlights the factors that are growing the TAM of digital advertising, including DTC channels, eCommerce, online marketplaces that offer adverts, and the mobile economy. (7 min read)

One of my favourite quotes from this post by Packy McCormick: “The biggest games today really take advantage of this, but you wouldn’t actually think of them as a game. I look at Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram as games and 3 billion people are playing them actively. They’re essentially big layers on top of a slot machine.” (19 min read)

If you enjoy reading newsletters and wonder where to find your next read, I highly recommend this Notion list by Blake Robbins that contains the latest articles covering tech entrepreneurship and the creator economy.

I’ve been following Justin Kan’s content for life advice and founders’ lessons. This video explains “hedonic treadmill” the never-ending pursuit for “more”, i.e. more money, more status, more success, etc. For creators, it helps to provide perspectives and realize that it’s ok to detach happiness from relying on the “next” big thing to make us feel happy.

Flexiple co-founder and CEO Karthik Sridharan shared a fascinating story of the NoCode tools that helped him build a $2 million revenue startup. Flexiple is a platform for hiring pre-screened developers and designers, built using these 7 no-code tools. You’ll love diving into these use cases breakdown and how to apply these no-code tools for databases, automation and marketing pages.

CA tool to “AI” your inbox and emails. I recently used SaneBox to train my Gmail to automatically categorize emails based on newsletter, bills, receipts, events, etc. I don’t need another email service to get to inbox zero!

A Chrome extension to capture full-page screenshots in your browser and download as PNG or PDF. One of my favourite tools to generate images for web design work, slide decks and swipe files for inspiration.

Some of you may recognize the book version but I’ve recently completed the “Indistractable” online course version from Mindvalley membership. If you want to become a super maker, it’s valuable to learn how to manage distractions and be focused.