22 March 2021
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Bill Gallagher, Founders, and Noah Kagan. Highlights include Power is fleeting — kindness to everyone is strategic, not soft Mayer's outer scorecard drove his rise — and ultimately destroyed him.
Showing 17 digests for 22 March 2021.
Founder interviews
YouTube
From White House to entrepreneur: Shelby Scarbrough on civility and connection
Bill Gallagher
March 28, 2021
Founder interviews
9
Delegation
6
Power is fleeting — kindness to everyone is strategic, not soft
Self-sufficiency that built the business is the same thing blocking scale
Connecting people across divides is a superpower with healing qualities
Louis B. Mayer: From immigrant poverty to Hollywood's cautionary titan
Founders
March 28, 2021
Case studies
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Business models
5
Mayer's outer scorecard drove his rise — and ultimately destroyed him.
Industry insiders dismissed sound film as a novelty; Warner Brothers won.
Betting on private consumers beats waiting for entrenched industries to adapt.
Ten habits of ultra-wealthy people that contradict common advice
Noah Kagan
March 27, 2021
Investing
9
Resilience & grit
7
Long-term planning
6
Why the richest people rent instead of owning property
Invest to stay rich, not to get rich — speculation is gambling
Every Forbes 100 billionaire got rich doing exactly one thing
Work-life balance
YouTube
Resetting priorities as a creator-entrepreneur before a major life change
Silicon Valley Girl
March 27, 2021
Work-life balance
9
Hiring & recruitment
7
Relationships & family
6
Why writing down your priorities makes saying no easier
Shifting from millions of followers to 200 deeply engaged community members
Hiring on gut instinct: why ignoring culture-fit red flags always backfires
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Socrates, wisdom, and the philosophy of everyday life
The Daily Stoic
March 27, 2021
Identity & self-belief
7
Relationships & family
6
Resilience & grit
5
Socrates is misread as ironic — the dialogues are genuinely life-threatening stakes
Why brilliant students (Alcibiades, Nero) turned out worst despite great teachers
Raising philosophical kids starts with whether you're curious yourself
How to simplify a prelaunch campaign by cutting length and complexity
Joanna Wiebe
March 26, 2021
Funnels
8
Pivoting
6
Product-market fit
5
A 3-week drip launch trapped them mid-chaos — here's the fix
Four-day prelaunch using existing content, no new filming needed
Self-segmentation gate filters leads before the drip even starts
How to retire early by keeping costs low and building active income
Noah Kagan
March 25, 2021
Bootstrapping
9
Goal setting
7
Cash flow management
6
Retirement means hitting your monthly number, not stopping work.
Keeping cost of living low removes pressure to take any job.
Active income you control beats passive investing for early freedom.
Managing scattered schedules, phantom part-time work, and academic overload
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
March 25, 2021
Time management
9
Productivity & habits
8
Work-life balance
6
Binge working costs more than it earns — sprints beat all-nighters
Your work budget forces colleagues to confront what they actually ask
Track reading time, not books — it changes everything about how you read
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to find the right co-founder for your startup
Y Combinator
March 25, 2021
Hiring & recruitment
9
Equity & cap tables
6
How your co-founder handles stress matters more than their skills.
Default to 50/50 equity — long-term motivation beats short-term fairness.
Work on projects together first; commitment conversations come after.
Rec Room: how a VR startup pivoted to a cross-platform metaverse
Acquired
March 24, 2021
Case studies
9
Pivoting
8
Iteration & feedback loops
6
VR market flatlined for two years — Rec Room survived by going multiplatform.
Handing creation to users unlocked 2M creators and 660% revenue growth.
Centralized economy beats crypto: control is what lets you evolve the rules.
Technical SEO fundamentals: site structure, speed, and audits
Ahrefs
March 24, 2021
Logical site hierarchy helps search engines crawl and index pages efficiently.
Caching and image compression handle most page speed issues without complexity.
Free weekly audits catch broken pages, orphan pages, and redirect chains automatically.
Why most entrepreneur forums fail — and how to engineer a better one
Bill Gallagher
March 24, 2021
Management
9
Community building
7
Resilience & grit
5
Surrounding yourself with like-minded people is the biggest forum mistake.
Six deliberately curated expertise types replace luck with balance.
Bring questions back to your team, not answers from the room.
How Disney built a sustainable brand ecosystem through strategic acquisitions
Masters of Scale
March 23, 2021
Business models
9
Case studies
8
Long-term planning
6
Keep acquired brands separate — merging them destroys the value you bought
Shanghai Disneyland: localise culture, don't export it, for faster loyalty
A diverse ecosystem survives shocks that kill a monoculture
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to decide when to remove a wrong hire
Bill Gallagher
March 23, 2021
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
6
Keeping the wrong person costs more than an empty seat
Values fit outweighs performance when deciding who must go
The Talent Assessment Grid shows who to replace, develop, or retain
Customer discovery
Podcast
Building Product Vision: Balancing Customer Input With Founder Intuition
Startups For the Rest of Us
March 23, 2021
Customer discovery
8
Business models
6
Identity & self-belief
5
Customer feedback reveals needs, not solutions—your vision shapes how you solve them.
Selling your company need not trap you; creative founders always discover what's next.
Life-changing money (100k–250k+) unlocks freedom to take risks and give generously.