Why I Use Roam Research Daily

From The Next Big Thing by Nikhil Trivedi — read the original.

Notes

• I’ve struggled for years to figure out how to organize my notes and thoughts. In my job as a venture capitalist, I’ve created thousands of notes for individual companies over the past decade. Each note is titled with the name of the company. But in each of those company notes are references to other companies, to investors, to sectors and thesis areas that the particular company relates to, and more.
• If the expected economic return on an acquired customer is low, any acquisition path that requires education of that consumer to the virtues of the product will inevitably lead to failure unless a macro tailwind or zeitgeist eventually eliminates the educational cost. #RoamCult #Cult
• But I’ve seen the misuse of the term “Network Effects” countless times over the years. I think the simple heuristic for any entrepreneur or product builder of “Is this product or service actually getting better over the time, and the more the user uses it?” is perhaps a more powerful framing than analyzing whether or not there can be network effects in it.
• The examples of this are everywhere — for example, the more you drive a Tesla, the better the car’s autopilot becomes with real data from the road; or, the more you watch on Netflix, the better the recommendations get as to what to watch next, and the better Netflix’s team gets at creating its own original content, which in turn improves your own experience.