Celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving this past weekend by going to a chalet with a bunch of my really good friends (yeah sorry they’re mostly all Asian 😂), and decided to just enjoy the weekend and not think of anything else, and honestly it felt really good to just have fun for a few days.

So no main story today, but will be back in force the following week.

Now, on to the newsletter.

Weekly Articles

📱 Product

• The past, present, and future of FYI: How Hiten Shah turned an obsession with customers into Product Excellence - We’re doing a complete revamp of our product at work, so this article gave really good insights on the process that Hiten Shah used when building FYI. I really liked his approach of building a quick MVP (in 5 days) and released it to just a few users and gathering feedback that way.

• Why we decided to go for the Big Rewrite - Again related to our product revamp. In the article, there are a few questions that we should consider before actually doing a Big Rewrite. I answered yes to most of the questions, so I believe we’re going in the right direction.

✏ Writing

• Writing is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence - I thoroughly enjoy reading about writing since I always learn something new. The following quote from the article really resonated with me and is also very similar to what David Perell preaches as well.

👾 eSports

• Unkillable - I’ve never played nor understand League of Legends, but I really enjoy reading about other eSports players. This Player’s Tribune article is about Faker, one of the best League of Legend players. I just love when players show personality and confidence and truly wished we’d see the same in hockey. Like this quote is amazing.

Weekly Favourites

🎮 Video Games

• Legends of Runeterra - Not a big video games fan, but I’m a sucker for card games. I hated Hearthstone because of all the RNG and Artifact completely bombed. Looked forward to trying Riot’s card game.

🛠 Tools

• Weava - Since I’ve been doing these newsletters, I’ve always wanted to have an easy way to highlight articles that I was reading, but never found a good one. I even thought of building my own chrome extension that would do exactly that. HOWEVER, I finally found something that does this! I haven’t tried it out yet, but I will definitely be using it for next week’s article so we’ll see, but it definitely looks promising.

🐦 Tweets

• Been seeing lot’s of Lizzo vids out there, but this is definitely the best one 😂

• Really cool vid on how an Octopus changes colour while dreaming. Never knew this was even a thing!

• I should definitely learn from him and also start the day with some affirmations. Kid is going to kill it some day.

🎧 Music

Songs

• Easy - Camila Cabello

• Mad At You ft. Gallant - Noah Cyrus

• Love is war ft. Bryson Tiller - DJ MLG

• Joanna - JoJo

Albums

• Wow…That’s Crazy - Wale - The features are SO good on this album. I’m honestly surprised that I liked it so much. Some of my favourites were Sue Me, Cliché, Expectations, Love… (Her Fault), On Chill, Routine and 50 in Da Safe.

• Over It - Summer Walker - This album also did NOT disappoint. Favourites were Come Thru, Potential, Like It and Stretch You Out.

🙏 Shoutouts

• Shoutout to all of my friends that I spent Canadian Thanksgiving with. Great weekend of fun, chilling and relaxing with good company 👌.

👋 End Note

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Alexander