What's New

This week's additions focus on leadership, mindset, and adjacent, with new digests from Founders, Noah Kagan, and Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life. Highlights include Kayak earned $1.5M revenue per employee — one of the highest ratios publicly traded Talking to yourself out loud for 10 minutes cuts through mental noise

Founder interviews

Podcast

Paul English: Building Kayak, bipolar disorder, and the immigrant mindset

Founders June 15, 2018

Founder interviews 10

Bootstrapping 6

Kayak earned $1.5M revenue per employee — one of the highest ratios publicly traded
Bipolar highs felt so good Paul kept quitting medication to preserve his fire
Paul learned to negotiate a $33.5M exit from watching his dad at yard sales

Communication

YouTube

16 leadership activities to build connection and self-awareness

Noah Kagan June 14, 2018

Communication 9

Culture building 8

Identity & self-belief 5

Talking to yourself out loud for 10 minutes cuts through mental noise
Repeated low-stakes vulnerability — not pep talks — builds high-trust teams
Four leadership archetypes (Moses, Joshua, Miriam, Sarah) clarify who does what

Productivity & habits

Podcast

Building a morning routine that actually sticks

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life June 13, 2018

Productivity & habits 9

Physical & cognitive performance 8

Physical health & longevity 6

Your evening routine determines whether your morning routine works.
Start with two minutes, not thirty — small habits compound.
Missing a day isn't failure; just start the next chain tomorrow.

Vision & mission

YouTube

How to replace vision statements with a vivid written future

Cameron Herold June 13, 2018

Vision & mission 10

Management 5

Vision statements are word-salad; employees can't act on them
A 4-page written future-state document aligns everyone without accountability pressure
Company taken from $100M to $800M in six years using this method

SEO

YouTube

Content gap analysis: find and fill keyword gaps using competitor data

Ahrefs June 11, 2018

SEO 9

Content marketing 8

Keywords every competitor ranks for, but you don't, are priority targets.
Find missing subtopics in old posts by comparing against top-ranking competitors.
Two posts cannibalising the same keyword? Merge and redirect the weaker one.

What's New

11 June 2018

Paul English: Building Kayak, bipolar disorder, and the immigrant mindset

16 leadership activities to build connection and self-awareness

Building a morning routine that actually sticks

How to replace vision statements with a vivid written future

Content gap analysis: find and fill keyword gaps using competitor data

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