What's New

This week's additions focus on marketing, founder stories, and strategy, with new digests from Bill Gallagher, Founders, and The Daily Stoic. Highlights include Why slow, deliberate decisions can outperform speed in the long run Three rockets failed before the fourth saved the company.

Deep work & focus

Podcast

Reducing meeting overload and reclaiming deep work time

Deep Questions with Cal Newport March 15, 2021

Deep work & focus 9

Productivity & habits 8

Time management 7

Meetings spread because they're the one productivity tool people actually follow
Three fixes: personal organization, standing status meetings, office hours
Meaningful activities — not willpower — are the only way off social media

Origin stories

Podcast

Chuck Feeney: building and secretly giving away a billion-dollar fortune

Founders March 15, 2021

Origin stories 10

Bootstrapping 7

Business models 6

Built an $8B duty-free empire with zero outside capital.
Secretly transferred his entire fortune to charity before Forbes noticed.
Gave while alive, anonymously — no plaques, no named buildings, nothing.

Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Always consider unintended consequences and others' perspectives

The Daily Stoic March 15, 2021

Identity & self-belief 9

Communication 7

Long-term planning 6

Good intentions alone cause blowback — Caesar's killers created an emperor
Kennedy avoided nuclear war by thinking several escalation steps ahead
Strategic empathy makes you more effective, not just more compassionate

What's New

15 March 2021

Reducing meeting overload and reclaiming deep work time

Chuck Feeney: building and secretly giving away a billion-dollar fortune

Always consider unintended consequences and others' perspectives

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