Growth tactics, retention strategies, and becoming a better writer | Julian Shapiro (Demand Curve, Hyper, Webflow, TechCrunch)

Why do good ideas arrive? after the bad ideas are empty. It's because when you've gone through a bunch of bad ideas Your brain, your mind starts reflexively identifying what elements are causing the badness. then it becomes way better at avoiding those bad elements.

And you become way better at pattern matching. The novel ideas. with way greater intuition. And so like most creators are resisting their bad ideas. So if you sat down, scribbled a few thoughts in a blank document and just walked away because you weren't struck with gold. then you never actually finish the creative process. No there's no way you would have come up with gold.

Welcome to Lenny's Podcast. I'm Lenny, and my goal here is to help you get better at the craft of building and growing products. Interview world class product leaders and growth experts to learn from their hard won experiences. Building and scaling today's most successful companies. Today my guest is Julian Shapiro. I actually spent a bunch of time introducing the wondrous Julian at the beginning of the episode, so instead let me just share some of the things that we talk about.

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