👋 Yo! I’m Deepak. Here, I take raw notes on business, marketing, blogging, technology and more. Know more about me.
Best Writing Advice
						
						Jordan Peterson's guide to writing
						
					
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				What SEO is Not
						
						Some misunderstandings about SEO
						
					
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				Blockchain Domains - Pros and Cons
						
						Ever heard of the all-new .crypto and other related domains? Yes, they do exist.
						
					
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				Shortcut to Create Checkboxes in Obsidian
						
						Shortcut key to create lists and checkboxes in Obsidian.
						
					
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				Selfish Writing
						
						Morgan Housel guide to selfish writing.
						
					
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				WhatsApp launched Multi-device (beta)
						
						Recently, WhatsApp launched it's most awaited multi-device beta.
						
					
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				Hope and Despair
						
						John Stuart Mill's quote explaining how people see hope and despair.
						
					
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				Which Platform is the Best to Learn?
						
						I ran a LinkedIn poll about which platform is the best to learn something everyday, here're the results...
						
					
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				The Computers of the Future
						
						A prediction of how the future computers are going to be
						
					
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				Learned New Word - Sabbatical
						
						A sabbatical is a break from work.
						
					
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				Internet Harvesting
						
						The internet is a huge pile of information and harvesting what you really need is an art.
						
					
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				11ty is the Best
						
						What I feel about the 11ty static site generator.
						
					
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				Writing is Thinking
						
						If you can think, and speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly.
						
					
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				Cool Writing Prompts Generator App
						
						Get 100s of cool writing prompts ideas with just a click.
						
					
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				Your obsession with "winning" at Hacker News and Product Hunt is hurting your business
						
						Rob Fitzpatrick explains how not to do PR
						
					
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				Add Product Hunt Badge to your Website
						
						Step by step tutorial to add the PH badge on your website.
						
					
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				Using Notion to Create a Website
						
						I hated that people were creating websites using Notion, but now I love it.
						
					
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				Jessica Carter JavaScript Twitter Thread
						
						Learn 70% of JavaScript basics in these series of Twitter Threads
						
					
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				Product Hunt Post Launch Tips
						
						20+ strategies to follow after you launch on the Product Hunt
						
					
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				www to non-www from Cloudflare Page Rules
						
						Easiest way to redirect all the www request to naked version of the website from Cloudflare itself.
						
					
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				Single Page Js App No Framework
						
						Create a single page JavaScript app without any framework
						
					
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				Groups to Spread Product Hunt Launch
						
						A list of Facebook, Reddit, and Slack communities to spread words about your Product Hunt launch.
						
					
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				Twitter Threads Hook Guide
						
						A mini guide on how successful Twitter threads are created
						
					
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				How to Be Successful
						
						Sam Altman explains how to be successful
						
					
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				The 2021 B2B Distribution Stack
						
						B2B distribution stack by Ross Simmonds
						
					
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				Cool Thread on Making Threads
						
						Blake Emal's thread on how to make successful Twitter threads
						
					
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				How Blake Uses Twitter
						
						A mini-guide to use Twitter like Blake Emal
						
					
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				Expression is Compression
						
						My notes on David Perell's essay Expression is Compression
						
					
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				Different ways to make money online
						
						Know 40+ different and unconventional ways to make money online
						
					
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				Notion API tools ideas
						
						Notion API is out and here are some ideas developers can steal
						
					
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				Why do people buy courses?
						
						Almost all the information is available for free, then why do people buy?
						
					
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				Lessons learned after 16 projects on Product Hunt
						
						How they published 16 projects and what they learned about Product Hunt
						
					
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				Google Algo Updates List
						
						A list of all the major Google algorithm updates from 2003.
						
					
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				Whataboutism
						
						Definition of whataboutism or whataboutery
						
					
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				A List of 100+ Handpicked Personal Websites
						
						Get inspiration from these manually selected personal websites and save 70+ hours of work. Never run out of design inspiration again.
						
					
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				Competing with FREE
						
						How to compete with someone offering the same for free.
						
					
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				2020-2030 - The Newsletter Decade
						
						The rise of plain-text newsletters does tell us something
						
					
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				Why people buy
						
						Bikash explains - why do people really buy stuff?
						
					
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				Adding 301 redirects in Gatsby hosted on Netlify
						
						Use Netlify's _redirects method to add 301 redirects in Gatsby
						
					
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				Converting Spotify podcasts to text
						
						Easiest way to convert Spotify podcasts to text for free
						
					
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				Missing Stair
						
						The missing stair by blogger Cliff Pervocracy
						
					
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				3 great virtues of a programmer
						
						According to Larry Wall (author of the Perl programming language), there are three great virtues of a programmer
						
					
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				📢 Deepak's Notes is now powered by Hugo
						
						I have migrated this site from Jekyll to Hugo now.
						
					
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				A list of newsletter directories and aggregators
						
						Newletter directories and aggregators help your newsletter reach the target audience and provide the initial push that it deserves.
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				Ryan Sneddon learning from 205 newsletters in 2020
						
						I wrote 205 newsletters in 2020 and will write 160+ this year. Here are the best things I've learned (updated)
1. Brevity is king. Still
2. Read great newsletters and steal what you like
3. Make realistic but big growth targets
— Ryan Sneddon🍦 (@sneddymobbin) April 2, 2021 
Here’s what he learned:  Brevity is king. Still
 Read great newsletters and steal what you like
 Make realistic but big growth targets…
						
					
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				Interesting quotes that I love
						
						Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley
Business has only 2 basic functions: marketing and innovation. - Peter Drucker
There is no black and white in marketing; it’s all gray. There are no silver bullets. Marketing objectives sometimes need to be solved with a combination of efforts, not by putting all your eggs in one basket.…
						
					
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				The underwear theory of economic growth
						
						The Underwear theory According to former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, the sale of male underwear resembles the prevailing economic condition.
Fall in underwear sales indicates a slowdown in the economy, while the growth in underwear sales signals a recovery in economic conditions.
Source Link…
						
					
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				Validating a business idea
						
						What is business idea validation? Validation is designed to give you you reasonable certainty your business will have a sustainable, growing, paying audience in a matter of days or weeks, rather than wasting months or years building a final product nobody will pay for.
What is not business idea validation? Validation isn’t a guarantee of success and it most certainly isn’t easy. It’s not as simple as putting up a waiting list and hoping people miraculously discover your offering & fork over their hard-earned money for something that doesn’t exist yet.…
						
					
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				Business validation guide
						
						What is validation? Validation is the process of gathering evidence and learnings around business ideas through experimentation and user testing to make faster, informed, de-risked decisions.
And, there are 2 approach to validate a business:
Waterfall approach Lean approach Step-by-step Validation 🚀 Source…
						
					
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				Story - How I got into business
						
						From starting to write in 2015 to joining a startup in 2017 was one of the best things.
The startup failed within a year but the things that it taught are unforgetable.
🚀🚀 Full Story…
						
					
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