31 January 2022
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and founder stories, with new digests from TK Kader, The Daily Stoic, and Neil Patel. Highlights include Raising prices often increases win rates, not just revenue A deferred email reply teaches memento mori the hard way.
Showing 15 digests for 31 January 2022.
Five overlooked problems killing your SaaS go-to-market strategy
TK Kader
February 6, 2022
Niche selection
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Pricing strategy
6
Raising prices often increases win rates, not just revenue
Your sales process should match how buyers want to buy
Referrals close faster and cost less than any other channel
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Seven stoic lessons from an abandoned ghost town
The Daily Stoic
February 6, 2022
Resilience & grit
8
Motivation
7
Mental health & wellbeing
6
A deferred email reply teaches memento mori the hard way.
Nothing is truly owned — Epictetus knew it, the miners proved it.
If not now, then when: fac si facis as a call to act.
Content marketing
YouTube
Content marketing and SEO work together to drive lasting traffic
Neil Patel
February 5, 2022
Content marketing
9
SEO
9
Copywriting
6
SEO and content marketing are inseparable — each needs the other.
Social traffic fades; only SEO sustains long-term visitor growth.
Structured data, internal linking, and Core Web Vitals bridge both disciplines.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to know yourself and refuse to be defined by others
Dr. Grace Lee
February 5, 2022
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
Tying identity to job title makes every career setback an existential crisis
Childhood attachment needs cause us to abandon authenticity and absorb others' values
Uncovering your true values is the only foundation for genuine self-knowledge
Automation & tools
YouTube
Choosing task management software based on your analog habits
Layla at ProcessDriven
February 4, 2022
Automation & tools
9
Productivity & habits
5
Your pen-and-paper habits predict which digital tool fits you best.
Six analog personality types, each mapped to a specific tool.
Wrong tool choice — not lack of discipline — causes digital burnout.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Don't follow your passion: build career capital instead
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
February 3, 2022
Productivity & habits
9
Goal setting
7
Why matching your job to a passion rarely produces job satisfaction
Get rare, valuable skills first — use them as leverage to shape your career
Work backwards from the life you want, not forward from a dream job title
How to build a company culture guide: parts 2 and 3
HR Party of One
February 3, 2022
Culture building
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Why documenting how employees leave protects culture and productivity
Compensation transparency belongs in the culture guide, not just HR files
Five steps to keep a culture guide alive after launch
From manager to director: the mindset shift that matters
Dr. Grace Lee
February 2, 2022
Management
10
Contracts & agreements
9
Deep work & focus
8
Director skills are the opposite of what made you a great manager
Influence without authority: leading teams that don't report to you
Directors charter the future; managers execute the present
Understanding incentives is how you actually change the world
Y Combinator
February 2, 2022
Market research
9
Customer discovery
7
Business models
6
Why software alone can't kill car dealers, realtors, or recruiters
Ride sharing failed repeatedly until Uber mapped every stakeholder's incentives
Not Googling your idea before building it is willful ignorance
How Natalie Massenet built Net-A-Porter by seeing five minutes into the future
Masters of Scale
February 1, 2022
Origin stories
9
Business models
6
Contracts & agreements
5
Fashion magazines showed things consumers could never actually buy
A bad investor contract cost Natalie control of her own company
Seeing the future means nothing without the team to deliver it
Founder interviews
Podcast
Rob Walling and Courtland Allen on bootstrapping, mental health, and finding ideas
Startups For the Rest of Us
February 1, 2022
Founder interviews
9
Niche selection
6
Resilience & grit
5
Achieving freedom without a new purpose triggers depression — not laziness
91% of successful SaaS ideas trace to a problem the founder personally experienced
Basecamp's anti-funding stance was calculated marketing, not a founding principle
Six business models to monetize your knowledge and skills
Sunny Lenarduzzi
February 1, 2022
Business models
9
Product-market fit
5
Courses beat coaching — no income ceiling, clients don't rely on your schedule.
Most influencer income is noise; 98% of real revenue comes from programs.
Skip one-on-one coaching first — hybrid programs validate faster and scale sooner.
Ranking a website without publishing blog posts
Neil Patel
January 31, 2022
SEO
9
Content marketing
6
Consolidating duplicate content can move pages to position one
CTR improvements alone can lift rankings without new content
Infographics, guest writers, and podcasts replace writing entirely
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Cal Newport's time management system: capture, configure, control
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
January 31, 2022
Productivity & habits
10
Deep work & focus
7
Reactive time management is a system — just a bad one.
Multi-scale planning (quarterly, weekly, daily) is how you take control.
Constraining what gets on your plate matters as much as organising it.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Using the Pomodoro technique to write books while working full-time
KeyPersonOfInfluence
January 31, 2022
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Time management
6
20-minute Pomodoro blocks make high-concentration writing sustainable
Expect only 3–4 quality deep-work blocks per day
Writing before and after work compounds into a finished book