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Nick K
• Mar 29
how to get good at building products fast — the actual curriculum nobody gives you:
1/ use products obsessively and take notes on what frustrates you. frustration is the raw material of good product sense.
2/ reverse engineer things you admire. pick an app you love and ask "why did they make this decision?" for every screen. do this weekly.
3/ ship something real to real people every month. doesn't matter how small. the feedback loop is the education.
4/ find someone building something and offer to help for free. watch how decisions get made in real time. that's worth more than any course.
5/ write about what you're building. even badly. the act of explaining it sharpens the thinking.
6/ the thing nobody says: most of this happens by doing, not by learning. the curriculum is the project.
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