Nathan Baschez is a developer of several products such as Product Hunt, Dash, Wordie Bird, and more recently Lex. He has also helped develop Substack.
He recently wrote an article where he talked about signature moves. “A signature move is a way of solving problems in specific situations that produce outstanding results.”
He says, he may not be good at taking a product from 1 to 100 but he is really good at taking it from 0 to 1. And he calls it his signature move.
In future, he wants to focus on how to get good at taking a product from 1 to 100 and beyond. But before he does that, he wants to stop and appreciate the 0 to 1 game he has mastered and write up everything he has learned about how to play it well.
In his article, he goes on about how he comes up with ideas for software, creates time and space to build them, shapes the idea into the first version of the product, and does the designing, coding, positioning, and launching of the product.
His article made me think about my signature move. I figured out, my signature move was to quickly learn new skills. For any endeavor or project I am working on, I will figure out what skills I need and how I can acquire them. Then I pretty much use the same strategy to learn those skills.
Over the past four years as an online writer, I have added several skills to my arsenal. Next year, I will be focusing on marketing and selling. But before that, I too want to take a moment to document what I have learned so far and my strategies to learn them quickly.
Today’s issue of Behind the Scene is about that.
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