Productivity & habits

YouTube

A six-step morning routine to engineer a great day

Noah Kagan July 3, 2020

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Productivity & habits 9

Deep work & focus 5

• A repeatable six-step formula to prime mind and body each morning
• Phone-free mornings and single-tasking build lasting focus
• Start with one step, commit 30 days, cut what doesn't work

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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Habit tune-up: time blocking, document collaboration, and protecting focus

Deep Questions with Cal Newport July 3, 2020

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Deep work & focus 9

Productivity & habits 6

• Inflate time block estimates by 50% — your instincts are wrong.
• Executives: a fixed morning boundary beats mid-day deep work fences.
• Satisfaction comes from mastery, not the subject — stop switching.

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Management

Podcast

Darren Walker on racial justice, philanthropy, and the new playbook for 2020

Masters of Scale July 2, 2020

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Management 8

Founder interviews 7

Fundraising & VC 6

• Why Ford Foundation borrowed $1 billion to give it away
• Black entrepreneurs lack the friends-and-family capital white founders take for granted
• Deniability on racism ended the week George Floyd was killed

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Content marketing

YouTube

How to structure blog posts for high-traffic sites

Joanna Wiebe July 2, 2020

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Content marketing 9

Copywriting 8

Vision & mission 5

• Write the middle first — it's where all the substance lives
• Five to eight ideas per post, each backed by a quote and data
• Build editor relationships on Twitter before pitching anything

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SEO

YouTube

How domain rating works and what to focus on instead

Ahrefs July 1, 2020

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SEO 9

• DR is a link-popularity score, not a ranking predictor.
• Build links to target pages — Google ranks pages, not sites.
• A high-DR site linking to thousands of domains passes almost no equity.

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Pivoting

YouTube

How to prepare, pivot, and invest to thrive through a recession

Bill Gallagher July 1, 2020

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Pivoting 9

Fundraising & VC 7

Processes & SOPs 6

• Shifting to recurring revenue before a downturn can multiply your exit value.
• Spending on marketing while competitors retreat buys outsized attention cheaply.
• Baby boomer business owners create a rare acquisition window right now.

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Origin stories

Podcast

Edwin Land: Polaroid founder and the patent war with Kodak

Founders July 1, 2020

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Origin stories 9

Intellectual property 7

Deep work & focus 6

• Total immersion in one field for decades produces breakthroughs no part-time study can match.
• Land visualized the perfect outcome, then engineered backward—a method Steve Jobs later copied.
• Kodak's fatal mistake: underestimating Land's expertise, then losing a $925M patent war.

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Goal setting

YouTube

An entrepreneur's practical guide to goal setting

Noah Kagan June 29, 2020

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Goal setting 9

Productivity & habits 6

• Three goal types cover almost every business situation differently
• Wrong goal choice caused a podcast burnout and six-month break
• Goal plus deadline plus reward equals fulfillment — a usable formula

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