The document outlines 5 steps to crush a platform by listening to audience signals and continually experimenting and iterating content. Step 1 is to listen to what the platform emphasizes, like YouTube's focus on watch time over views. Step 2 is to also not just listen and think differently, like how Snapchat focuses on quality over what's most popular. Step 3 is to read between the lines on platform changes, like how Buzzfeed realized short, engaging videos would thrive on Facebook's autoplay changes. Step 4 is to set up frameworks to rapidly test ideas. Step 5 is to closely examine data from tests to inform new experiments and iterations. Tasty videos and Worth It are used as examples that followed this process of listening, thinking differently