This week's additions focus on founder stories, leadership, and strategy, with new digests from Masters of Scale, Ahrefs, and Founders. Highlights include Removing bidding wars made Taskers spontaneously teach each other skills. Individual SEO factors barely move rankings; cumulative implementation does.

Pivoting

Podcast

How TaskRabbit built a self-teaching human cloud

Masters of Scale July 11, 2018

---

Pivoting 10

Culture building 8

Case studies 7

• Removing bidding wars made Taskers spontaneously teach each other skills.
• Telling your community about changes via press is a trust-destroying mistake.
• Distributed human networks self-improve when you stop competing people against each other.

Read more →

SEO

YouTube

Ten data-backed on-page SEO techniques to boost Google rankings

Ahrefs July 9, 2018

---

SEO 10

Conversion rate optimisation 5

• Individual SEO factors barely move rankings; cumulative implementation does.
• Content coverage beats word count — median #1 result is just 800 words.
• Page load time rising from 1 to 3 seconds increases bounce rate by 32%.

Read more →

Pivoting

Podcast

Elon Musk: lessons from a biography on extreme ambition and execution

Founders July 9, 2018

---

Pivoting 9

Case studies 8

Delegation 6

• Musk bet nearly his entire PayPal fortune on three impossible companies simultaneously
• First-principles thinking exposes opportunities hidden by 50 years of unchallenged convention
• Hyper-rational under pressure — decisions improve as stress and stakes increase

Read more →