What's New

See the latest Trusted Library digests, grouped by the week they were added.

What's New

See the latest Trusted Library digests, grouped by the week they were added.

6 July 2020

This week's additions focus on mindset, marketing, and founder stories, with new digests from Founders, Noah Kagan, and Deep Questions with Cal Newport. Highlights include Hungarian immigrant rose from homelessness to building America's most-read newspaper through relentless work. A self-funded documentary hit #1 on iTunes and landed on Netflix.

Showing 10 digests for 6 July 2020.

Origin stories

Podcast

Joseph Pulitzer: The birth of modern media and the price of ambition

Founders July 12, 2020


Origin stories 10
Work-life balance 6
  • Hungarian immigrant rose from homelessness to building America's most-read newspaper through relentless work.
  • Pioneered mass-market journalism by using visuals, sensationalism, and shorter content for immigrant readers.
  • Achieved vast wealth and influence but became reclusive after blindness, losing all personal relationships.

Origin stories

YouTube

How Matt D'Avella built a YouTube channel after $117k in debt

Noah Kagan July 10, 2020


Origin stories 9
Content marketing 7
  • A self-funded documentary hit #1 on iTunes and landed on Netflix.
  • One weekly video outperformed ten decent excerpts every time.
  • Honest failure reports from 30-day experiments built a loyal audience.

Email marketing

YouTube

Ten ways to monetise your email list

Noah Kagan July 9, 2020


Email marketing 9
Prospecting & outreach 7
Pricing strategy 6
  • Pre-sell to five buyers before building anything.
  • List size matters less than trust and engagement quality.
  • Repeat promotion is essential — most subscribers miss any single send.

Deep work & focus

Podcast

Cal Newport on smartphones, deep work habits, and training focus

Deep Questions with Cal Newport July 9, 2020


Deep work & focus 10
Productivity & habits 7
  • Remove apps where companies profit from your attention — keep the rest.
  • A 10-second daily deep work tally is the keystone habit that drives all others.
  • Focus is a trainable skill; productive meditation and Roosevelt dashes build it.

Content marketing

YouTube

Three Methods to Turn Boring Blog Topics into High-Traffic Posts

Joanna Wiebe July 9, 2020


Content marketing 9
Copywriting 8
  • Personal narrative reframes a generic topic into a credible, specific story.
  • Identify beliefs your audience holds that are actually wrong — that's conflict.
  • Rewrite every draft headline with direct response copywriting instincts.

Productivity & habits

YouTube

Innovation and reinvention as a daily business practice

Bill Gallagher July 8, 2020


Productivity & habits 9
Processes & SOPs 7
Pivoting 6
  • Standing still in a changing market is the highest-risk move.
  • Small daily creative acts build the muscle for big breakthroughs.
  • Deconstructing your own process can double performance without new products.

Culture building

Podcast

How Atlassian redesigned meetings and culture for distributed work

How I Work July 8, 2020


Culture building 9
Management 7
Processes & SOPs 6
  • Make caring for each other an explicit meeting agenda item.
  • One dial-in rule from Trello creates a true level playing field.
  • Productivity metrics built for factories fail knowledge workers.

Culture building

YouTube

Building employee connection into leadership decision-making

Cameron Herold July 7, 2020


Culture building 7
Management 6
  • A head of people makes empathy a structural role, not a personality trait.
  • Skip-level meetings give CEOs unfiltered access to frontline teams.
  • Eliminating offices forces leaders into daily proximity with their people.

Content marketing

YouTube

Building a six-figure side hustle on YouTube while working full time

Noah Kagan July 6, 2020


Content marketing 8
Niche selection 7
Motivation 5
  • Start hyper-niche, then expand — the algorithm rewards relevance
  • Imitate creators you admire until your own style emerges
  • Consistent free content over years is the path to financial freedom

Productivity & habits

Podcast

Careers, productivity systems, and building a deep life with Cal Newport

Deep Questions with Cal Newport July 6, 2020


Productivity & habits 10
Deep work & focus 9
Work-life balance 8
  • Passion follows mastery — career capital beats follow-your-passion advice.
  • The configure step is where most productivity systems silently break down.
  • Five buckets — craft, health, community, philosophy, competency — rebuild a lost life.

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