1/ I'm super excited to onboard people into the @usejournal beta today!

a couple weeks ago we started rebuilding it from the ground up, this time with people like @samiur1204 in mind.

Now it's time to see a few brave souls use it 👇
2/ Journal is a research tool for creative people who hate organizing.

our goal is to give people the benefit of having their ideas organized - without doing any manual work.
3/ The beta includes 4 big pieces:

1. a chrome extension that AUTOMATICALLY saves webpages and docs you visit.

2. a personalized dashboard that organizes your content by topic, domain, and more.

here's my dashboard today:

(don't judge my links, i'm planning my wedding!)
4/ ... AND

3. search that makes it easy to get back to everything.

4. a morning email that summarizes useful things you saw and worked on the previous day.

here's a video of search in action:
5/ There are rough edges

but we make progress quickly

we only had this rough sketch a few weeks ago

I promise not to tell anyone who drew this @samiur1204: Image
6/ If you want to come along for the ride

DM me

I'd love to get you set up with Journal!

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26 Mar
1/ We grew the @usejournal blog from 0 pageviews per month in 2017 to 4,100,000 per month in 2020.

Here's what we've learned along the way 👇 Image
2/ Embrace limitations.

we have a small team

we spend our time writing code and talking to users

a contributor-driven strategy was the only way for us to reach a huge audience quickly

now 99% of articles on our blog are written by people with no affiliation to Journal
3/ Understand what writers want.

our biggest challenge was convincing people to submit posts to our Medium publication

most writers have valuable perspectives to share, but no audience to share with

we offer them distribution for their posts Image
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23 Mar
In the past 24 hours @samiur1204 and I scheduled 19 video onboarding sessions to welcome people into the @usejournal beta.

Exciting!

But now I'm more nervous than happy.

Here's how I work through the nerves of hearing new product feedback:
Remember the only thing worse than harsh feedback is no feedback.

In the past we took too long to get feedback

We polished areas of the product that users didn't care about.

We wound up not building enough empathy

Now before we ship something new, my inbox looks like this: Image
Look forward to confusion

We onboard everyone over Zoom to see this confusion up close.

It's painful to watch.

But we can't make improvements without it.

The more we see, the more we can improve.
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14 Aug 20
1/ Only 1% of venture-backed founders are Black.

I'm one of them.

On May 31, I sat crying next to my fiancee as she drove us from Santa Cruz to SF. I was overwhelmed by George Floyd's death and ashamed by how little I'd done to support the Black community.

That changes today.
2/ There are many Black people doing incredible work in Tech.

We need more visibility so we can be examples of what's possible for others who looks like us.

Today, let's shine a light on some of us.

links.usejournal.com/black-in-tech Image
3/ @swissbeatz is first up. Nathalie is a sales manager at Figma and an OLYMPIC RUGBY PLAYER (!!!)
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