11 April 2022
This week's additions focus on leadership, strategy, and founder stories, with new digests from TK Kader, The Daily Stoic, and Cameron Herold. Highlights include Three pivot types — zoom-in, customer need, segment — determine everything. Nothing outside you can break your freedom of choice
Showing 18 digests for 11 April 2022.
How to pivot a SaaS startup: three principles for doing it right
TK Kader
April 17, 2022
Pivoting
9
Product-market fit
6
Three pivot types — zoom-in, customer need, segment — determine everything.
Test with an MVP before committing; rebuilding everything wastes months.
Go-to-market conversations reveal what to pivot to before product does.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Ten timeless meditations from Stoic philosophy
The Daily Stoic
April 17, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Nothing outside you can break your freedom of choice
Invincibility means caring only about what is up to you
Injustice includes standing by while wrong happens
Building a team that grows itself: culture, skills, and confidence
Cameron Herold
April 15, 2022
Culture building
9
Business operating systems
7
Management
6
Praise employees 2:1 over criticism — most CEOs barely come close
Four corners align your whole company: Vivid Vision, BHAG, purpose, values
Growing skills and confidence in your team beats holding them accountable
Automation & tools
YouTube
Delegate Your Email Inbox Using Missive's Team Collaboration Features
Layla at ProcessDriven
April 15, 2022
Automation & tools
10
Delegation
6
Missive turns personal inbox into a delegatable team workspace.
Rules and shared inboxes auto-route email without manual sorting.
Dynamic templates make delegation trustworthy and output consistent.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Running a startup through war: lessons from a Ukrainian founder
Masters of Scale
April 14, 2022
Founder interviews
9
Management
7
Cash flow management
6
How a strong mission kept a team working through daily bomb sirens
Cash reserves and US clients were the financial lifeline in wartime
Buying Ukrainian products is a direct, actionable form of support
Content marketing
YouTube
How to generate six months of content ideas in three days
Neil Patel
April 14, 2022
Content marketing
9
SEO
8
Processes & SOPs
5
Your existing Google Search Console data already holds hundreds of ideas.
Sort Ubersuggest keywords by difficulty to find the easiest wins first.
Comparison and question searches signal high purchase intent — target them.
Returning to normal: a creator's LA vlog and short video growth
Silicon Valley Girl
April 14, 2022
Growth hacking
8
Case studies
6
Resilience & grit
5
A viral TikTok hit 27M views and unlocked brand gift packages
Daily short-form posting beats batch-shooting for sustainable output
Creator brand deals are becoming genuine partnerships, not just ad slots
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Deep Questions: Managing idea notebooks, digital minimalism, and keystone habits
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
April 14, 2022
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Monthly notebook review lets your mind release ideas without losing them.
Social expectations — not app design — make messaging habits hard to break.
Keystone habits only work if the tracked action genuinely moves the needle.
Wright Brothers vs Glenn Curtiss: Patent Wars and the Birth of Aviation
Founders
April 14, 2022
Case studies
10
Competitive analysis
8
Resilience & grit
6
Wilbur Wright's patent obsession exhausted him to death at 45.
Curtiss: eighth-grade dropout who out-built and out-innovated the Wright brothers.
Genius in one domain doesn't prevent catastrophic mistakes in another.
Using personality assessments to improve employee retention
HR Party of One
April 14, 2022
Management
9
Conflict resolution
7
Communication
6
Personality tests work best after hiring, not during it
Managers must know their own profile before coaching others
Tailor rewards and training to personality data or risk losing staff
How Afterpay Built a Buy-Now, Pay-Later Powerhouse
Business Breakdowns
April 13, 2022
Case studies
9
Business models
8
Unit economics
6
Transaction-level credit approvals and four-week repayment cycles replaced rolling credit card debt.
Merchants saw 20–40% average order value lifts while consumers gained budgeting flexibility without fees.
Afterpay scaled from zero to $20B GMV in six years by staying focused and building a shopping app competitors couldn't replicate.
Three decisions that make every presentation land
Dr. Grace Lee
April 13, 2022
Public speaking
9
Communication
5
Why knowing your purpose filters out everything that doesn't belong
Deciding on effect means you never truly lose your place
Information alone never creates transformation — that's the presenter's real job
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
Five surprising ways to rethink your hiring
Masters of Scale
April 12, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
7
Hire for cultural fit and long-term vision, not just immediate availability.
Build your own talent by developing generalists into specialized roles over time.
Remove geographic barriers to access the world's best candidates, not just local ones.
Diversity, mission, values, and how to start a startup: listener Q&A
Startups For the Rest of Us
April 12, 2022
Culture building
8
MVP & prototyping
7
Niche selection
5
Bootstrapping is closer to meritocracy than venture capital ever will be.
Wait until 7–10 employees to formalise values — any later and culture hardens without you.
The best startup ideas come from problems you live, not from waiting for inspiration.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
No pressure, no diamonds: growing through entrepreneurial struggle
Dan Martell
April 11, 2022
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
7
The struggle is the mechanism of growth, not a barrier to it
Each company should leave you with a transferable high-income skill
Playing nice with others is a learnable skill — and a business-critical one