This week's additions focus on adjacent, founder stories, and leadership, with new digests from Founders, How I Work, and Ahrefs. Highlights include Thiel secretly funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit to destroy Gawker over a decade. Why songwriting demands complete solitude — even one room away kills it

Niche selection, Vision & mission, Long-term planning

Podcast

Peter Thiel on conspiracy, monopoly, and building the future

Founders August 2, 2018

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Niche selection, Vision & mission, Long-term planning 10

Case studies 7

Sales systems 6

• Thiel secretly funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit to destroy Gawker over a decade.
• Conspiracies and startups share the same principles: secrecy, patience, high agency.
• Zero to One: build monopolies, capture value, and avoid competitive equilibrium.

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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Amanda Palmer on songwriting, creative solitude, and her TED talk process

How I Work August 1, 2018

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Deep work & focus 10

Productivity & habits 8

Relationships & family 6

• Why songwriting demands complete solitude — even one room away kills it
• A 50-minute ramble became a 12-minute TED talk through two months of brutal cutting
• Public deadlines and Patreon payments replaced daily routines as creative discipline

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Growth hacking

YouTube

Six free keyword research tools and how to combine them

Ahrefs July 30, 2018

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Growth hacking 10

Hiring & recruitment 8

Iteration & feedback loops 6

• Free tools give ideas but cannot tell you what it takes to rank
• Google Keyword Planner bucketing makes volume data unreliable for close variants
• Layer tools in sequence: generate, validate volume, then check trend direction

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