14 March 2022
This week's additions focus on strategy, mindset, and founder stories, with new digests from TK Kader, The Daily Stoic, and Silicon Valley Girl. Highlights include Tiny niche markets are where micro SaaS beats VC-backed competitors Marcus Aurelius journaled as spiritual combat, not self-expression
Showing 15 digests for 14 March 2022.
Micro SaaS: when to use it and how to build your first one
TK Kader
March 20, 2022
Business models
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Automation & tools
5
Tiny niche markets are where micro SaaS beats VC-backed competitors
Single-purpose tools with clear ROI outperform broad platform plays
Plugins, no-code tools, and single-page apps are enough to start
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Seven journaling strategies from Marcus Aurelius and the Stoics
The Daily Stoic
March 20, 2022
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Marcus Aurelius journaled as spiritual combat, not self-expression
Evening review alone produces a 25% measurable performance increase
Repetition is the point — drilling ideas into muscle memory, not variety
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Financial habits and mindset for navigating crisis and building wealth
Silicon Valley Girl
March 17, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Cash flow management
8
Personal finance
7
Six months of runway is the minimum safety buffer — always.
Panic buying and selling in crises almost always backfires.
Consistency without experimentation leads to stagnation, not growth.
Cal Newport's writing business flywheel and deep life model
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
March 17, 2022
Business models
8
Deep work & focus
8
Productivity & habits
6
Books, platform, and deep life form a self-reinforcing flywheel
Income buys autonomy — summers free, sabbaticals possible, not scorekept
500 words a day compounds over decades; busyness does not equal impact
Work-life balance
YouTube
Work-life balance through rhythm and recovery as an EOS implementer
EOS Worldwide
March 17, 2022
Work-life balance
8
Business operating systems
5
Only ~30 intense session days per quarter creates built-in recovery time
Hard work feels rewarding when genuine downtime is part of the rhythm
Personal passions outside work are active recovery, not wasted time
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Five steps to stop people-pleasing and return to your authentic self
Dr. Grace Lee
March 16, 2022
Identity & self-belief
9
Mental health & wellbeing
6
People-pleasing stems from a belief that part of you is unlovable.
Living by someone else's values always creates unsustainable internal conflict.
Fear and gratitude cannot coexist — gratitude eliminates approval-seeking.
Julio Lobo: the rise and fall of Cuba's last sugar tycoon
Founders
March 16, 2022
Post-mortems
10
Pivoting
6
Resilience & grit
5
Lobo financed Castro's rebels — who then confiscated his $200M fortune
Speculation, not bad luck, destroyed every fortune he built
Died poor on his daughters' allowance; funeral drew a handful of people
How Francisco Bricio grew a software business from $2M to $70M
KeyPersonOfInfluence
March 16, 2022
Business models
9
Case studies
8
Content marketing
6
From $2M to $70M revenue by becoming an industry authority
A free benchmarking report replaced advertising — and became a paid product
One Nissan mandate unlocked 11 countries and rival manufacturers
How narrowing your ideal client tripled revenue in 18 months
KeyPersonOfInfluence
March 16, 2022
Niche selection
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Case studies
6
Picking one ideal client type unlocked a 3x revenue jump.
A targeted campaign landed his single highest-value client ever.
Clarity, not more effort, was the real growth lever.
Daymond John: how FUBU scaled through authentic partnerships
Masters of Scale
March 15, 2022
Case studies
9
Branding
7
Bootstrapping
6
How 10 shirts and bodyguards created the illusion of a massive brand
LL Cool J snuck FUBU into a Gap ad — for weeks undetected
Samsung's textile division saved FUBU after 27 banks said no
How Dan and Ian built Dynamite Jobs from a community pain point
Startups For the Rest of Us
March 15, 2022
Case studies
9
Pivoting
7
Hiring & recruitment
6
An existing audience on both sides makes two-sided marketplaces bootstrappable.
Flat-fee recruiting at $5,500 beats the 20%-of-salary model for founders.
Hiring people genuinely better than you is the lever that unlocks 10x growth.
Why most creators don't need a YouTube channel yet
Sunny Lenarduzzi
March 15, 2022
Vision & mission
9
Content marketing
6
Customer discovery
5
Content before business clarity is putting the cart before the horse.
All you need: one message, one offer, one client, one traffic source.
Unfocused content creation is often subconscious self-sabotage.
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
When to launch your startup and when to wait
Y Combinator
March 15, 2022
MVP & prototyping
9
Pivoting
6
Resilience & grit
5
There is no single launch — you launch repeatedly until it lands
Instacart, Brex, and Magic all shipped with almost no back end
Delaying is only valid if you've already built this product before
Building a programmatic SEO content operation with no-code tools
Rob Walling
March 14, 2022
SEO
9
Automation & tools
8
AI tools & automation
6
Validate a content type with 3 articles before scaling to hundreds
A single Airtable database auto-generates 429 ranked pages via Webflow
Audience-led vs product-led: two distinct approaches to finding SEO topics
Deep work & focus
Podcast
The hyperactive hive mind: why email is killing knowledge work
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
March 14, 2022
Deep work & focus
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Checking email every 6 minutes is required by design, not bad habits
Individual fixes like better filters can never solve a structural problem
Bespoke collaboration systems are the only way out of constant context switching