Ryan Hoover: evaluation

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…And that ends up forcing you to have concrete actionable advice. So you've kind of developed an even more interesting way of doing it on Twitter where it's more focused. So very smart. I've always liked your format by the way, in that you are a curator in many sense. You have a lot of experience and good ideas, but you're not trying to answer all the questions. In that, you are really pulling in experts in their domain expertise to find answers or inspiration. And I've always liked that format because one, it, I think, leads to better results, better content, better answers, but also it's arguably easier. Imagine if you tried to write... Well, you're shaking your head almost like maybe it's not as easy. If I had the answers, I'd be like, oh, here you go, I'm done. The research takes a lot of work and time, but I do agree it ends up being a lot more useful and valuable. And the reason I did that, just to kind of explain that briefly, is when I left Airbnb, people kept coming to me and asking me like, "Hey, how did Airbnb do this thing? How'd they do that thing.?" And I was just like, they don't know what they're doing. They just did this thing. And who knows if that was the thing that helped them or if that was the right way of approaching it. So I wanted to do this, what does everyone do and what seems to be the pattern of the thing that works? And that kind of led to this approach and it takes a lot of time, especially this new series that we're going to chat a bit about that I worked on where it's just endless interviews and chats and researches and watching interviews. But yeah, it works out.…

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