6 June 2022
This week's additions focus on strategy, leadership, and mindset, with new digests from Dylan Davis, TK Kader, and Rick Fawcett - Expert EOS Implementer. Highlights include Writing quality matters more than any structural element in audit reports. Start micro: niche scope gets traction faster than building big.
Showing 22 digests for 6 June 2022.
What makes an ideal smart contract audit report
Dylan Davis
June 12, 2022
Processes & SOPs
9
Compliance & regulation
5
Writing quality matters more than any structural element in audit reports.
Exploit scenarios in every finding make developer buy-in far more likely.
Short-term fixes and long-term architectural recommendations should be separate.
Three principles for building your first SaaS business
TK Kader
June 12, 2022
Niche selection
9
Product-market fit
7
Start micro: niche scope gets traction faster than building big.
Market urgency matters more than how good your product is.
Domain knowledge in your target market dramatically raises success odds.
Business operating systems
YouTube
Why every company needs a single operating system
Rick Fawcett - Expert EOS Implementer
June 11, 2022
Business operating systems
10
Management
5
Every employee imports a different OS — the hidden cause of company friction
EOS replaces chaos with exactly 20 tools and one shared system
Learning EOS builds transferable skills: capacity, process, and people management
Responding to rude people in high-level meetings: the CLEAR framework
Dr. Grace Lee
June 11, 2022
Communication
8
Resilience & grit
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Contextualise rude behaviour instead of taking it personally
A prepared go-to phrase breaks your neurological freeze-or-fight pattern
Your reaction to rudeness reveals your own emotional layers to reconcile
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How to write outreach emails that feel personal, not templated
Ahrefs
June 10, 2022
Prospecting & outreach
9
Copywriting
7
Starting from a template always sounds unnatural — reverse the process
Write to one real prospect first, then extract the merge fields
One well-crafted email can scale to hundreds of same-segment prospects
Outsourcing & delegation
YouTube
How Marina built 11 income streams across four buckets by 32
Silicon Valley Girl
June 10, 2022
Outsourcing & delegation
9
Work-life balance
7
Cash flow management
5
Old YouTube videos keep generating cash long after you stop posting.
Workbooks and courses can sell passively with only a customer support team.
Greed for new income streams is a trap — focus beats diversification.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Cal Newport on deep work, tech trends, and building a focused life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
June 10, 2022
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Work-life balance
6
Disrupted context produces worse thinking, not just slower output.
Separate your workspace from home — most remote workers underestimate this.
AR convergence will end consumer electronics as we know it.
How Kathryn Finney is building equitable entrepreneurship from the ground up
Masters of Scale
June 9, 2022
Case studies
9
Fundraising & VC
8
Business models
6
VCs drove up Black founders' valuations — then blamed them for the fallout
$100 microgrant turned into $100k in sales; speed beats bureaucracy
Fewer than 11 Black women had raised $1M in VC funding as of 2016
April Dunford on product positioning, segmentation, and sales optimization
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 9, 2022
Niche selection
9
Branding
7
B2B sales
6
Position against status quo and alternatives, not just competitors—40% of deals lost to no decision.
Map differentiated capabilities to value themes, then target customers who care most about that value.
Champion persona drives the deal; arm them to sell IT, procurement, and the economic buyer.
How to craft value propositions for hybrid link building outreach
Ahrefs
June 8, 2022
Segment your prospects so value propositions hit harder and more specifically.
A 20% conversion rate came from linking outdated health advice to real reader risk.
Offering to rewrite a paragraph — link or not — lifts response rates on weak pitches.
Jacob Fugger: How the first capitalist built history's greatest fortune
Founders
June 8, 2022
Case studies
10
Fundraising & VC
8
Business models
7
The creditor held more power than the emperor — Fugger knew it first
He bribed the Pope to legalise interest and accidentally triggered the Reformation
Died alone at 66; his family still collects income from his assets today
How Sheryl Sandberg scaled Google and Facebook by breaking plans
Masters of Scale
June 7, 2022
Management
9
Long-term planning
8
Delegation
7
Why clinging to early plans is the biggest leadership failure at scale.
Make people safe to tell you when you're wrong — or they won't.
Keep mission constant; break everything else as fast as needed.
Podcasting analytics, staying sharp as a CEO, and scaling team alignment
Startups For the Rest of Us
June 7, 2022
Culture building
8
Business operating systems
7
Management
6
Spotify silently swallows 20–40% of listens your analytics never see.
Hire people closer to the work than you — let them bring ideas to you.
OKRs make saying no the default, not a negotiation.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Unsubscribing from validation, vanity metrics, and external expectations
Sunny Lenarduzzi
June 7, 2022
Identity & self-belief
8
Goal setting
6
Chasing subscriber counts led directly to burnout and lost purpose
A 'boring, predictable' business outperforms hustle and shiny-object chasing
Narrowing your audience focus creates more impact, not less reach
Founder interviews
Podcast
Julie Zhuo on career growth, writing, product sense, and design leadership
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 7, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Management
7
Customer discovery
6
Feeling like an imposter coincides with your fastest career growth
Writing publicly forces clarity of thinking that pays off in meetings
When your intuition stops matching your users, run experiments instead