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- 253Dec 8, 20181 mincategories
Sarah Tavel: The Three Levels of User Engagement
Sustainable user engagement should be built through three levels: user growth, focusing on the growth of users completing core actions; user retention, where the longer the product is used, the greater its value, and the greater the loss when users leave; self-sustaining, where users create a positive feedback loop through their participation in the product.
Read more → - 254Dec 7, 20182 minpersuasionrhetorics
Tailoring the arguments for persuading the decision maker
To improve the chances of success in persuading decision-makers, the way of message delivering should be considered carefully. There are five decision-making categories and they should be treated with different strategies.
Read more → - 255Dec 6, 20182 mincollaboration
How to Work with Achievers, Activators, Adapters, Analyzers, and Arrangers?
Working with Activators: Provide recognition, allow freedom, assist in moving forward; Working with Adapters: Highly adaptable, easy to collaborate, advantageous for short-term tasks; Working with Analyzers: Good at thinking, data-driven, values accuracy; Working with Arrangers: Skilled at coordinating and handling complex tasks, strong problem-solving abilities.
Read more → - 256Dec 5, 20181 minproduct
Sarah Tavel: The Hierarchy of Engagement
To maximize the chances of building an enduring non-transactional customer company, we should build enduring engagement in three levels - growing engaged users, retaining users, and self-perpetuating.
Read more → - 257Dec 4, 20182 mintime management
System Admin Time Management: Introducing the Cycle System
The key to perfect follow-through is the cycle system. It is called the cycle because it repeats every day and the output of one day is the input to the next. Three tools are used in the process - a to-do list, a calendar and a list of long-term goals.
Read more → - 258Dec 3, 20182 mintime management
System Admin Time Management: radical automation with routines
Routines are useful tools in time management since they enable us to think once and do many. A routine can be anything in real life that has certain patterns. Try to develop your own routines!
Read more → - 259Dec 3, 20182 mintime management
Time Management for System Administrators: Radically Automating with Routines
How to develop your own routines, you can try to identify the following situations: tasks that recur without being scheduled; maintenance tasks; relationships and professional networks; when the time spent procrastinating exceeds the time spent taking action; things that are frequently forgotten; trivial tasks that are occasionally overlooked but shouldn't be; developing new skills; keeping up with trends through continuous reading.
Read more → - 260Dec 2, 20185 minblog
Making progress 30 kilometers per day
The Amundsen team successfully reached the South Pole first and won the competition with the Scott team. The success of the Amundsen team lies in their abundant resources and making progress 30km per day no matter what the weather is.
Read more → - 261Nov 26, 20181 minstartup
Pitch Deck Outline
To make successful slides for the seed-round fundraising, first, start with your title and slogan. Then, bring up your problem on the next pages. The problem should be followed by your solution and explanations. At last, don’t forget to say what you need from the investors.
Read more → - 262Nov 25, 20182 minleadership
Humility is the road to character
People are more narcissistic than ever because of the increasingly tremendous benefits brought by fame via the mass media and the Internet. Pride focuses on superiority. However, humility is the self-confrontation of weakness, which is painful and takes effort.
Read more → - 263Nov 25, 20182 mincollaboration
How to work with Consistentor, Context Provider, and Deliberative
Practical tips for collaborating with Consistentor, Context Provider, and Deliberative personality types.
Read more → - 264Nov 20, 20182 mincollaboration
How to work with Believer, Commander, Communicator, Competitor, and Connector
Working with people need skills. Believers need jobs linking to their passion. Look to commanders taking charge when persuading people. Communicators have ideas for communication. Be competitive when with competitors. Connectors build bridges across different teams.
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About Tian Pan
I'm Tian Pan, an engineer-founder focused on agentic engineering — building autonomous AI systems and scaling engineering teams. I write practical guides on system design, technical leadership, and shipping with AI agents. Previously an early engineer at Uber, Brex, and IoTeX.
