This week's additions focus on founder stories and mindset, with new digests from Founders and Noah Kagan. Highlights include Self-taught outsiders often outrun formally trained experts in originality. Outworking everyone is a daily practice, not a personality trait.

Deep work & focus

Podcast

Leonardo da Vinci: lessons in curiosity, creativity, and cross-disciplinary thinking

Founders November 17, 2017

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Deep work & focus 8

Case studies 7

Productivity & habits 6

• Self-taught outsiders often outrun formally trained experts in originality.
• Procrastination is a creative tool — ideas need time to marinate.
• 7,200 surviving notebook pages are only a quarter of what he wrote.

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Founder interviews

YouTube

From homeless and broke to CEO: JT McCormick on work ethic and sacrifice

Noah Kagan November 13, 2017

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Founder interviews 10

Productivity & habits 7

Resilience & grit 6

• Outworking everyone is a daily practice, not a personality trait.
• Exact steps to rebuild wealth from scratch, starting at McDonald's.
• Success hides the sacrifice — nobody counts the 18-hour days.

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