🕯️ Lessons learned from building Wikipedia, 70+ curated resources for designers

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• Checkout handz.design, a free 3D hand gestures library for your products & marketing

• @hamzoun and @AliBoukaroui are making a library of reusable HTML blocks (pricing tables, heroes, features, footers...etc), so developers can build their own landing pages in minutes by copy-paste. You can download a few blocks for FREE from here or visit their website https://frontendor.com

• Tired of wasting time doing mindless browsing, install Intention chrome extension. And whenever you visit a distracting site, Intention will ask you to commit to a time limit in order to unlock the site. When your time runs out, Intention automatically ends your session by @harrydry

3 learnings from Jimmy Wales building an Internet giant (Wikipedia) by @tariqpatanam

1. Your product is an opportunity to build something amazing - not just your wealth.
2. Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. Early on, Wikipedia had a lot of trouble with inaccuracy/plagiarizing. He could have spent $$$ to hire moderators and fix this. But his solution? Just grow the community and let them find the inaccuracies.
3. "The strongest motivator is a powerful mission. If you make one edit on Wikipedia, you go to bed knowing you contributed to the world. That it's at least a little better than you found it." - Jimmy Wales

Twitter Tip: link to the intent URL instead of your username by @lpellis

This might be old news to most of you, but if you link to the intents page, twitter will popup a 'Follow' button that should make it more likely for people to actually follow you. Check it in the action here.

Master design thinking with 70+ curated resources by @ginu
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The curse of the format by @rosiesherry

• A blog is free
• A pdf is an email
• A book is $30
• A course is $300
• A coaching is $3000
• A consulting is $30000

They all have the same content

How to get better at writing? by @akumar0630

• Write, write and write.
• Learn more about writing by reading "On Writing" by Stephen King or "Writing Down the Bones."
• Watch this Scott Adam's video on writing (35 mins)
• When you are writing, just write and don't do any editing.
• Install Grammarly free add-on for rectifying all grammatical mistakes
• Make your writing more awesome by using Hemingway app
• Listen to what you have written. Press Ctrl+Shift+U on Microsoft edge to listen to what you wrote.

1. Writing Effective Headlines for Ads (Excellent Read) by @Indigoblue

2. I Almost Lost a Client. One Email Turned the Setback Into a Win (Must Read for Freelancers and Agencies) by @Thedc

3. Bootstrapping Lemlist From Zero to $1m ARR in 2 Years by @Tomhuntio

4. How to Make a Profitable Newsletter by @Andrewkamphey

5. Yesterdays Launch Was a Mess. Don't Do This by @Entrepreneur

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