Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In the spirit of trying something new, I decided to take all of my 2018 essays and turn it into an ebook PDF that you can read at your own leisure. It’s over 50 pages, includes all my essays, and alongside 200 slides in decks I published this year, you should have more than enough content to read through for a while.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

In the interim, I’ve stayed pretty active on Twitter, writing tweetstorms that sometimes turn themselves into essays on here. For a quick summary of the essays that did make it onto here, including a couple guest collaborations, here’s an easy set of links: The Passion Economy (guest essay by Li Jin, a16z).

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 31, 2018

Essays from 2017. Expanding on a tweetstorm, this essay breaks down the key lessons I’ve learned from running a professional blog over the last 10 years. Featured essays from 2016. Featured essays from 2015. More essays from 2015. Books, essays, and more from the past year. More to come on this topic!

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The essay below argues: “ The Passion Economy.” The post The Passion Economy (Guest essay by Li Jin) appeared first on andrewchen. In recent years, the Gig Economy has taken over. Startups like Uber, Airbnb, Instacart, and others have been able to find product/market fit and scale their businesses.

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Forbes Leadership

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Legal scholar Leah Goodridge is a litigator and educator that wrote an award-winning UCLA Law Review essay. This article features an interview with Goodridge about the essay where she explores how professionalism has become a tool for racism and oppression.

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Andrew Chen

JULY 10, 2017

I wanted to do a quick roundup of my essays over the last year, in case you’ve missed any of them. I’ve published a number of guest essays and original writing on topics like growth metrics, consumer psych, the startup ecosystem in the Bay Area, push notifications, and much more. Original essays. Guest essays.

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Forbes Leadership

JANUARY 25, 2023

While the program is well equipped to pass even complex tests, it cannot be a substitute for innovation, creativity, and critical thinking—attributes that students are expected to showcase on the college admissions essay.

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Forbes Leadership

DECEMBER 29, 2022

After months of studying for standardized tests, compiling application materials, and editing essays, students can breathe a sigh of relief after the January 1st college application deadline.

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Forbes Leadership

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The best defense against ChatGPT is to start teaching expository writing, explicitly and beginning at the sentence level, in elementary school.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In the spirit of trying something new, I decided to take all of my 2018 essays and turn it into an ebook PDF that you can read at your own leisure. It’s over 50 pages, includes all my essays, and alongside 200 slides in decks I published this year, you should have more than enough content to read through for a while.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The essay below argues: “ The Passion Economy.” And quick plug, if you want to read more essays like this — this article was originally posted on a16z.com and you can subscribe to the newsletter here ). The post The Passion Economy (Guest essay by Li Jin) is also published on andrewchen. But what’s the next?

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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

If you are a teacher, the probability is high that some of the essays you are collecting from students were actually written by an algorithm.

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Alison Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Book recommendation of the week: These Precious Days: Essays , by Ann Patchett. She is a beautiful writer and the title essay will make you cry, or at least it did me. This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

In the interim, I’ve stayed pretty active on Twitter, writing tweetstorms that sometimes turn themselves into essays on here. For a quick summary of the essays that did make it onto here, including a couple guest collaborations, here’s an easy set of links: The Passion Economy (guest essay by Li Jin, a16z).

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Forbes Leadership

MARCH 2, 2023

ChatGPT is not likely to overtake the top spot in English classes.

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Chief Executive

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Two years later, an instructor at the hotel school Schulze attended asked students to write an essay about the hotel business. The essay would be the culmination of the students’ preparation. With that, Schulze had his marching orders—and something far more precious and enduring. We can be a dishwasher and a gentleman.”

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Michael McKinney

JANUARY 18, 2024

Source: 101 Essays that Will Change the Way You Think II. Brianna Wiest on growth through struggle: “Often, our most intense discomfort is what precedes and necessitates thinking in a way we have never conceived of before. That new awareness creates possibilities that would never exist had we not been forced to learn something new.”

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Michael McKinney

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I N AN ESSAY published in 1908, Orison Swett Marden encourages leaders to give responsibility to their employees—to develop leaders at all levels. Below are thoughts adapted from that essay that are as relevant today as they were when they were written. Give power so that others may grow.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

The post The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin) appeared first on andrewchen. It’s still early days, so if you’re building something that is related to any of these aspects, please drop me a line !

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Andrew Chen

AUGUST 23, 2023

Usually the essays are scheduled to go out Monday/Tuesday morning at 9am The day the post goes out, I do a light proof-read and then once it goes out, I write a tweetstorm directing traffic This whole process has served me well for years. I’ve been writing for hours!) Be opinionated.

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Michael McKinney

AUGUST 24, 2023

Source: Getting There: A Book of Mentors by Gillian Zoe Segal * * * Getting There: A Book of Mentors by Gillian Zoe Segal is a collection of 30 unfiltered essays by successful people and their path to get there. If you don’t ask, you don’t get.”

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 15, 2024

It leads to endless editing, turning what could be a quick tweet storm into a months-long essay project. For example, start with a tweet, expand it into a thread if it’s well-received, and then develop it into an essay. Here’s why this approach is flawed Firstly, focusing too much on quality is a great way to procrastinate.

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Association Now Leadership

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

e-blasts, online newsletter and magazine stories, and photo essays), I want to boost my productivity and versatility by being able to produce more of the art elements of each piece myself. But now that I handle various types of content (e.g., In that way, I hope to be not only more self-reliant but also more helpful to my colleagues.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Titles become essays. The best example of this in my work is “ Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing ” which started out as a tweet with 20+ shares, and then was developed into an essay afterwards. I’m still getting traffic – and email feedback – on essays I wrote ten years ago, which is insane!

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Ed Batista

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The line above is from Harrison's 1998 essay "Why I Write, Or Not," page 59. I have a special admiration for authors who laugh at themselves as they share their wisdom, and here are some of my favorite texts in that vein: The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking (Oliver Burkeman, 2012). Jerry Harvey, 1999).

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Michael McKinney

APRIL 20, 2023

Source: Portraits from Memory and Other Essays * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Animals become indifferent to their young as soon as their young can look after themselves, but human beings, owing to the length of infancy, find this difficult.

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Refresh

JANUARY 6, 2023

Born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at Trinity College and Magdalen College at Oxford, Wilde’s most famous works include the Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as many other noteworthy epigraphs and essays.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 4, 2015

Leadership & Supervisory Skills biography essay' He’s also been the CEO of CNN and the Editor of Time Magazine. Knowing all of […]. The post American Sketches appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Liquid Planner Collaboration

MAY 4, 2020

You need to be realistic about how much time you actually have,” explains Joyce Cassell, a tech blogger at Essay Writing Service and Essay Help. One of the most common mistakes when working remotely is to overestimate how much you can actually get done at home.

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Nir Eyal

MAY 13, 2016

About a year ago, I wrote an essay about how to win your competition’s customers habits. Today, I’d like to share a quick video of the ideas in that article.

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Michael McKinney

JUNE 30, 2022

Source: Essays on Life by Thomas Mitchell, Farmer. * * *. ‘One thing at a time’ will always perform a better day’s work than doing two or three things at a time. By following this rule, one person will do more in a day than another does in a week.”. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Alison Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It’s presented as a collection of personal essays, but it’s really more of a memoir about growing up Jewish in Canada in the 80s and 90s, doing a lot of drugs, and trying to figure out family, girls, and comedy. These Precious Days: Essays , by Ann Patchett. Paula , by Isabel Allende. Beautiful and haunting.

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Association Now Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2023

“Most organizations do not tell stories with a beginning, middle, and end, with conflict and resolution, or with characters and settings,” nonprofit consultant Annie Neimand recently wrote in an essay at the Stanford Social Innovation Review. That dearth of storytelling hurts charitable nonprofits looking for support, she asserts.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MAY 11, 2015

Note: The essay that follows was written several years ago and comes from my book Vantagepoints on Learning and Life. The lessons are as true as ever. I share this as a day-after-Mother’s Day tribute to my mom. Thanks Mom – I love you. …… My mother emailed me about an experience she had last […].

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Alison Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

I figure one way to do this is to create my own academic writing (say by creating 2-3 academic styled essays) and reports, proposals, etc. But don’t create academic-type essays unless you’re applying to jobs that specifically request those. But maybe it’s a problem if no one has scrutinized the work before?

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Walk Me

AUGUST 9, 2021

Greenleaf after he read an essay by Herman Hesse’s book, Journey to the East. This made an impression on Greenleaf, who articulated the idea in an essay, which then became expounded upon in academic journals and in the business world.

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Andrew Chen

AUGUST 21, 2023

Below is a graph of creator earnings, which show a similar curve – via API scraping in the essay The Economics of OnlyFans – showing that while some creators earn up to $100,000/month, the median is closer to $180/month. More on this from an essay of mine from a few years back, What’s Next in Marketplaces ).

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