Kei Watanabe

Kei Watanabe

Kei Watanabe is a co-founder and product manager at Glasp.

74 Quotes

"Learn in Public is an investment in your & human society’s future."
Kei Watanabe
Why We Should Learn in Public
"“When you publish ideas, you create your own “Serendipity Vehicle” — a magnet for ideas and people and opportunities from potentially every corner of the globe. If your ideas resonate with people, people will discover you and bring you unexpected opportunities. They’ll open doors you never knew existed.”"
Kei Watanabe
Why We Should Learn in Public
"If you share the process of learning online, you will receive much more feedback than sharing in print. That will accelerate your learning."
Kei Watanabe
Why We Should Learn in Public
"the advantage of an online profile is that it’ll be your lifelong asset because you can look back at it anytime and you can share it unlimitedly."
Kei Watanabe
Why We Should Learn in Public
"The more content being created, the more learners come in and the easier it is to learn."
Kei Watanabe
Why We Should Learn in Public
"your online profile is your lifelong asset, so you can contribute to human society in your entire life."
Kei Watanabe
Why We Should Learn in Public
"If you want to make a new habit, an action should be very easy to keep on. And you need an excuse for not doing it on some days."
Kei Watanabe
Why We Should Learn in Public
"Curated learning of yours will motivate you to learn further and push you to explore related fields"
Kei Watanabe
Why We Should Learn in Public
"I think one of the solutions could be sharing the process of your learning passively."
Kei Watanabe
Why We Should Learn in Public
"I believe everyone in the world has unique experiences and learning and it’s valuable for someone in the world. Unless it appears, it’ll be just lost and it’s also a loss for human society."
Kei Watanabe
Why We Should Learn in Public
"the advantage of sharing the whole process of learning in one place is that after ages can learn from yourself effectively."
Kei Watanabe
Why We Should Learn in Public
"We have started it based on the mission “to democratize access to other people’s learning and experiences that they have collected throughout their lives as a utilitarian legacy.”"
Kei Watanabe
Why We Should Learn in Public
"We have a social DNA at the core. Everything you highlight is public and accessible to anyone on Glasp."
Kei Watanabe
Why We Should Learn in Public
"The network effect is “a phenomenon whereby a product or service gains additional value as more people use it.”"
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"Adding new customers typically makes the network more valuable for all participants because it increases the probability that everyone will find something that meets their needs. So getting big fast matters, not only because it creates more value, but also because it assures that competing networks never take hold."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"Network effects can explain 70% of all the tech companies’ value since 1994 and it is the best form of defensibility and value creation in the digital world (three others are brand, embedding, and scale)."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"the fundamental flaw underlying Metcalfe's law because the power of network effects is not only influenced by the number of participants in a network, however, it assigns equal value to all connections or all groups. The affinity between participants is important, as is the value of commerce between them."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"Since most internet networks allow for cluster formation, they will almost certainly follow Reed's Law and expand in value at a significantly quicker pace than either Metcalfe's Law or Sarnoff's Law predicted."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"There are differences in the strength, proximity, and activity of nodes, therefore not all relationships are created equal."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"In general, if the network has a higher density, then the network effects become more powerful. The interconnectivity of links reinforces and enhances the connections between other nodes."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"Money, information, communication, and anything else that may flow between nodes as they interact can all be part of that interaction."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"“The critical mass of a network refers to the point at which the value produced by the network exceeds the value of the product itself and of competing products.”"
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"There are also plenty of companies that start with the tool or product and then work their way up to the network. The classic examples of a ""come for the tool, stay for the network"" company are Delicious (with bookmarks) and Instagram (with filters)."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"Marketing, social engineering, and market niche selection are frequently more important than technology in the success of such an adoption approach."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"When a person's identity or reputation is linked to a product, personal network effects come into play. People on Personal Networks are frequently persuaded to join by people they know in real life. If everyone you know in real life is using the same product to save their identity and reputation, there's a lot of value (for you) in joining the network."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"2-sided platforms have supply-side nodes (developers) and demand-side nodes (users), who exchange value through the platform's middleman (central node). The platform itself is beneficial to both parties."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"compared to online marketplaces, the features and benefits of the platform itself can play a greater role in the utility of a platform relative to the network."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"Each node in a data network feeds important data to the central database. As the value of the aggregated data grows, so does the value of the data for each user."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"Social network effects are the hardest to build and keep for the defensibility, however, if you can build it, it’s a big advantage for your product."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"create a business category and become the one known as 1 in the category. It gives a solid network effect. Let’s take an example. Bitcoin is known as the 1 in the crypto and benefited the most."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"name a company or product. When people listen to “grab an uber”, it means that you take a private taxi and go to the destination. “Googling” is another great example."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"You can find belief network effects in gold, Bitcoin, and religion. When people believe in something, others are more inclined to believe in it as well. As a result, there are significant social ramifications for not believing what your friends believe, and possibly even greater ramifications for quitting to believe what they believe."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"Content network effects are said that one of the solutions for the chicken-egg problem."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"Behance and Pinterest are letting users create content, then later users enjoyed generated content, and that made users keep using the product."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"The first solution is to create a single-mode utility tool and build a network later, as know as “Come for the tool, stay for the network”."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"content platform companies provide great utility tools to create and publish content."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"The second solution is to use token incentives."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"Web3 model is fairer than the centralized Web2 model because the people who helped build a community can own a piece of it"
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"If your product has network effects, the portion of organic users relative to paid users is going to increase over time."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"if your product has network effects, the retention rate is improving for newer cohorts."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"If a product is more valuable with more users, a growing percentage of users should transition to higher-frequency engagement buckets, or a more right-leaning power user curve, over time."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"networks with profiles tied to a real identity are more effective at creating network effects than networks with pseudonymous profiles and anonymous profiles."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"the social network death spiral happens when a platform or service acquires the maximum number of people in the ecosystem (N = max), but the value obtainable from the network (= N^2) is less than participants expect."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"When people are aware of who you are and what you do, your brand emerges. There are psychological switching costs associated with a well-established brand identity. People are less inclined to transfer from your brand to an unfamiliar or lesser-known brand since they have a psychological preference for what they are familiar with."
Kei Watanabe
Network Effects Total Guide | Glasp
"Glasp is an extension allowing users to capture YouTube video transcripts and summarize video content. With this extension, you can increase productivity while researching for and learning from YouTube video content."
Kei Watanabe
10 YouTube Chrome Extensions for Better Watching Experience
"The second feature is a summary of the video. Even before watching the video, Glasp takes the transcripts of the video and summarizes it with ChatGPT."
Kei Watanabe
10 YouTube Chrome Extensions for Better Watching Experience
"Glasp is the perfect extension for lovers of research and writing. It is used mainly by writers, note-takers, university students, product managers, founders, etc."
Kei Watanabe
10 YouTube Chrome Extensions for Better Watching Experience
"Glasp is a “social web highlighter” for the desktop. It means you can highlight web content such as web articles, PDFs, Kindle, and YouTube. And your knowledge is socially shared in the community so that others can learn from you as well as you learn from others."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"Readwise is a knowledge management tool focusing on importing and exporting digital content. It has a bunch of integrations with other applications such as iBooks, Instapaper, Kindle, etc. and it allows you to import and export your collections such as notes, highlights, tweets, etc."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"While they accept many web contents, there’s one thing you need to know: You should do it manually."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"You can import highlights of Kindle and Apple Books, web highlights from Medium, Pocket, Instapaper, Hypothesis, Feedly, Raindrop, tweets, and transcripts of Podcasts through Snipd. And once you connect to their apps, Readwise does everything automatically."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"There are many concepts for knowledge management. One thing Glasp and Readwise have in common is that they are not permanent places where all the knowledge is stored or organized."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"Before digging into the differences, let me point out their similarities, which they both capture and store the highlights. I think the highlight is the moment when something sparks in your mind."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"Something is unnecessary to be understood at that moment, but it tells you something important or resonates with your mind. And later on, when you look back at or organize the highlights, they connect with information in your mind, and they become knowledge."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"It takes time to convert a piece of information into knowledge. Therefore, it is necessary to save something that has caught your filter. At this point, it seems that both Glasp and Readwise have the same understanding."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"They help you find other opinions and interests, keep you motivated, and connect with like-minded people to learn together."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"Readwise, on the other hand, pursues a place where all the information is collected, and people can export their content to other note-taking apps seamlessly. I think this is because Readwise would think people get understood well when they sense-making on their own on note-taking apps."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"Making highlights and looking back at them is crucial, but people comprehend them in depth when they organize them. So, they offer various features and cover many apps so that people can focus on more important things and decrease the time spent on unrelated things."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"Digital clones would be the most attractive feature of Glasp."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"It collects your highlights and notes, then offers a digital clone of you. It means you can ask any questions to your digital clone, and your AI will answer them. So, if your friends share their digital clones, you can ask them any questions they know well."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"One of the most helpful features is to ask the document a question. Once you upload the document, it searches it and shows the answers after you input prompts."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"Glasp is a community-based tool that can be used for individual purposes. Its wide variety of features based on most users’ preferences makes it stand out."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"Readwise will be the people’s must-go place to search for what they read, learned, and wrote."
Kei Watanabe
Glasp Vs Readwise. Which Knowledge Management Tool is Better?
"I would say it is a noble and courageous life."
Kei Watanabe
The Greatest Legacy for Future Generations / Glasp
"A social web highlighter that allows you to highlight and collect web articles/sentences, organize them, and find/follow like-minded people to learn together."
Kei Watanabe
10 Best Safari Extension You Should Install in 2022 - DigitalGpoint
"Glasp is a web highlighter tool for web articles."
Kei Watanabe
10 Best Safari Extension for Writers in 2022 - Hongkiat
"You can store highlights for each article, and the highlights can be exported in batches, so when you actually write the article, you can easily export the collected highlights, combine them with other resources, and edit them."
Kei Watanabe
10 Best Safari Extension for Writers in 2022 - Hongkiat
"Glasp also has a social component, so if a user in Glasp highlights your article, you can see what specific parts of your article they agree with, what parts they question, and what they think of it."
Kei Watanabe
10 Best Safari Extension for Writers in 2022 - Hongkiat
"Medium’s Highlighter is only for articles on Medium’s domain, but Glasp can be used for all articles that exist on the web."
Kei Watanabe
10 Best Safari Extension for Writers in 2022 - Hongkiat
"career paths"
Kei Watanabe
Product Manager's Role and Skills | Glasp
"As shown in ""What is the Product Manager Career Path?"" above"
Kei Watanabe
Product Manager's Role and Skills | Glasp
"project managers"
Kei Watanabe
Product Manager's Role and Skills | Glasp
"If the more technical founders or C-levels prefer to deal directly with engineers, it might be difficult."
Kei Watanabe
Product Manager's Role and Skills | Glasp
"(b) communication — ensuring that the team is communicating effectively with one another and (b) communication – ensuring that everyone understands what is happening, when it is happening, and why it is occurring, especially as things change."
Kei Watanabe
Product Manager's Role and Skills | Glasp

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