7 June 2021
This week's additions focus on strategy, founder stories, and mindset, with new digests from The Daily Stoic, Silicon Valley Girl, and Masters of Scale. Highlights include External events can never ruin your character — only your choices can. Buying all at once on IPO day cost 30% of invested capital
Showing 15 digests for 7 June 2021.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Ten pieces of life-changing wisdom from the Stoics
The Daily Stoic
June 13, 2021
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
6
External events can never ruin your character — only your choices can.
Memento mori and amor fati: two mantras that reframe any situation.
Epictetus: you cannot learn what you already think you know.
Six beginner investing mistakes and how to avoid them
Silicon Valley Girl
June 12, 2021
Buying all at once on IPO day cost 30% of invested capital
Automating index fund purchases beats timing the market every time
Meme stocks and random advice destroy returns for non-professionals
How Rent the Runway survived COVID and emerged stronger
Masters of Scale
June 10, 2021
Case studies
9
Communication
8
Pivoting
7
Sustainability jumped from #15 to the #2 reason customers sign up
Pandemic downtime let them quadruple logistics capacity without expanding headcount
Organic signups in new cities prove consumer values shifted permanently
Five side hustles you can start today for free
Noah Kagan
June 10, 2021
Business models
8
Growth hacking
6
B2C sales
5
The skills people already compliment you on are your business.
Flipping works best when you stick to categories you understand.
Commit 12 months to any side hustle and you will hit $1,000/month.
Saying no without saying no: strategies for protecting your time
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
June 10, 2021
Time management
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Women and junior employees face backlash for direct refusals; asymmetry reduction and quota systems work better.
Office hours and process design shift work from reactive chaos to calm systems that protect deep work.
Advertise products on social media rather than becoming a content creator yourself.
César Ritz and Auguste Escoffier: how two obsessives built modern luxury
Founders
June 10, 2021
Origin stories
10
Customer experience
7
Culture building
5
Two peasant-born obsessives who redefined what a luxury hotel could be
Getting fired was the catalyst for their greatest and most lasting work
Perfectionism without a partner to absorb the pressure ends in breakdown
Using personal brand and PR to break through revenue plateaus
Bill Gallagher
June 9, 2021
PR & media
10
Branding
9
Prospecting & outreach
6
Your perceived weakness is often your strongest differentiator
PR opens doors that no paid ad budget ever will
Build your personal brand before you need to pivot
Productivity & habits
YouTube
How an eight-figure entrepreneur structures his day and week
Noah Kagan
June 9, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Business models
5
The one question that separates eight-figure founders from six-figure ones
Why being busy all day can mean producing almost nothing
Side hustles mornings and weekends are still the real path out
Pinduoduo: how social team-buying built China's largest e-commerce platform
Business Breakdowns
June 9, 2021
Case studies
9
Business models
8
Growth hacking
6
Sharing a purchase link with one friend unlocks wholesale prices for both
A 0.6% take-rate forces growth through merchant ad ROI, not extraction
AI teams beat veteran strawberry farmers by 76% ROI in head-to-head trial
Founder interviews
Podcast
A.J. Daulerio on rebuilding after public collapse through stoicism and recovery
The Daily Stoic
June 9, 2021
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
8
Productivity & habits
6
Three months sober when a $200M lawsuit hit simultaneously
Stockdale and Epictetus reframed victimhood as a choice he could refuse
Daily routine — fear journal, gratitude list, service — as the actual defence system
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Wendy Kopp built two education networks across 59 countries
Masters of Scale
June 8, 2021
Founder interviews
10
Business models
6
Sharing questions across a network beats distributing answers from the centre
Teach for India outperformed Teach for America by shifting to mindset-first training
74% of global alumni stay in education, becoming the network's self-reinforcing flywheel
How Berkshire Hathaway Built a Lasting Conglomerate
Acquired
June 7, 2021
Origin stories
9
Business models
7
Management
6
Insurance float as permanent capital enables disciplined conglomerate acquisitions
Decentralized management structure retains top operators and sustains talent advantage
Succession depth and institutional systems enable continuity beyond Buffett era
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Productivity principles from 10 years of interviewing experts
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
June 7, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Goal setting
7
Work-life balance
6
A six-hour focused workday beat eight hours — and lifted revenue 50%
Self-knowledge trumps any productivity system or framework
Lower your goals deliberately; hitting small targets builds real momentum
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How AppSumo hired a new CEO for its $85M business
Noah Kagan
June 7, 2021
Hiring & recruitment
9
Long-term planning
6
The CEO who scaled you to $100M can't scale you to $1B
AppSumo's outgoing CEO initiated his own replacement
A $100K referral bounty turned hiring into a PR event
Productivity & habits
Podcast
The relationship between order and discipline and personal freedom
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
June 7, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Intentional discipline aligned with your values creates freedom, not restricts it.
Chaos without structure leaves you reactive to email and algorithms, not genuinely free.
Start with roles and values; each week practice one area where you're falling short.