Resilience & grit

Podcast

Being an informed citizen without consuming cable news

The Daily Stoic February 8, 2020

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Resilience & grit 8

Mental health & wellbeing 7

• Heavy news consumers know the most trivia, not the big picture
• Stockdale's Vietnam POW story proves Stoicism works in modern extremes
• Stoics intervene when others are bullied — not when targeted themselves

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Culture building

Podcast

Netflix's Reed Hastings on building a culture that scales

Masters of Scale February 6, 2020

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Culture building 9

Hiring & recruitment 8

Business operating systems 5

• Over-processing every mistake builds a workforce of rule-followers, not thinkers
• Netflix's public Culture Deck filters out wrong-fit candidates before they apply
• The keeper test: would your manager fight to keep you if you tried to leave?

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SEO

YouTube

How to rank on the first page of Google

Ahrefs February 5, 2020

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SEO 10

• Page 1 isn't enough — target the top 3 or expect ~1% CTR.
• Search intent has three dimensions: content type, format, and angle.
• Ahrefs' Content Gap tool reveals subtopics your competitors rank for but you don't.

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Culture building

YouTube

Building culture and operational discipline in a scaling business

Bill Gallagher February 5, 2020

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Culture building 10

Processes & SOPs 8

Cash flow management 6

• Cascading daily huddles — not just frontline ones — build real culture.
• Too much capital removes spending discipline and amplifies bad decisions.
• Manual scoreboard updates force critical thinking that automation kills.

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Business operating systems

Podcast

Amazon's operating principles: how AWS builds at scale with frugality and rigour

How I Work February 5, 2020

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Business operating systems 10

Hiring & recruitment 6

• Why resource constraints make teams more innovative, not less
• Six-page narratives replace PowerPoint and expose weak thinking
• Amazon's default is finding a path to yes, not gatekeeping ideas

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Origin stories

Podcast

Adi Dassler and the rise of Adidas

Founders February 3, 2020

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Origin stories 10

Competitive analysis 6

Identity & self-belief 5

• Post-war cobbler invented sport-specific shoes, revolutionizing athletic performance through innovation.
• Family feud between brothers split Adidas and Puma, creating 30-year distraction that cost both companies dominance.
• Nike exploited Adidas's supply delays and dismissal of jogging, capturing the American market during the seventies boom.

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Using an experimental mindset to build better habits in 2020

How I Work February 3, 2020

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Productivity & habits 9

Goal setting 6

• Goals put you in a failure state before you even begin
• Treat habit change as experiments, not resolutions, to remove guilt
• Five criteria filter strategies: free, simple, novel, fast, science-backed

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