22 August 2022
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from TK Kader, Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, and Neil Patel. Highlights include Market beats team and product as the top predictor of SaaS success Cut the backstory — readers want the specific how, not the why.
Showing 19 digests for 22 August 2022.
How to calculate total addressable market for SaaS founders
TK Kader
August 28, 2022
Market research
9
Niche selection
9
Pitching investors
5
Market beats team and product as the top predictor of SaaS success
TAM alone is not enough — pair it with ICP to show differentiation
Your initial customer profile is the wedge that proves you can execute
Persuasive communication, managing up, and teaching effectively
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
August 28, 2022
Communication
9
Management
8
Cut the backstory — readers want the specific how, not the why.
Managing up proactively is what gets people promoted at every level.
Say no by surfacing trade-offs, not by refusing outright.
Seven underused marketing tactics that drive traffic and conversions
Neil Patel
August 27, 2022
Growth hacking
9
Social media
8
Content marketing
6
Post carousels on other people's Instagram profiles to grow your reach
SMS click-through rates (~18%) vastly outperform email (~2–4%)
Free tools attract thousands of backlinks with no ongoing content effort
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to stop living for others' approval and find your next level
Silicon Valley Girl
August 27, 2022
Identity & self-belief
8
Long-term planning
6
Criticism hurts less when your strategy no longer depends on approval.
Cutting social feeds and traveling reconnects you to what you actually want.
Immediate execution urge — not vague interest — signals the right next move.
Automation & tools
YouTube
Three automations every manager needs to reduce mental load
Layla at ProcessDriven
August 26, 2022
Automation & tools
8
Delegation
6
Productivity & habits
5
A single delegation form handles any ad-hoc task from any device.
Text expansion tools turn rushed messages into complete, consistent communication.
Automated reminders eliminate the manager's role as professional nag.
Selling software to startups: when it works and when it doesn't
Y Combinator
August 26, 2022
Niche selection
9
B2B sales
6
Product-market fit
5
Startup customers churn when the buyer persona changes at scale
Self-serve flows are not a sales strategy — they're avoidance
Stripe and Gusto show the only two legitimate startup-first strategies
Business operating systems
Podcast
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on scale, sustainability, and staying scrappy
Masters of Scale
August 25, 2022
Business operating systems
9
Culture building
8
Case studies
6
Only 10% of workloads have migrated to cloud — it's barely begun.
Amazon's carbon intensity improved even as absolute emissions grew.
Scale creates obligation: 29M people trained, $2B in housing equity.
How Veed.io grew from zero to $5M ARR in two years
Rob Walling
August 25, 2022
Niche selection
9
SEO
8
Case studies
7
Stop building features — obsessive growth beats polished product
Build for what people already search for: demand and distribution in one
First dollar took two years; growth then compounded every few months
Process saves time — lack of process wastes it
EOS Worldwide
August 25, 2022
Processes & SOPs
9
Management
5
Lack of process — not process — is what drains your time.
Messes, angry customers, and staff turnover are the real cost.
Getting everyone doing things right every time eliminates rework.
Seven tips for effective payroll management
HR Party of One
August 25, 2022
Processes & SOPs
9
Compliance & regulation
7
Five common payroll mistakes that cost employers time and money
Automate payroll with an HRAS to cut errors and manual work
Payroll certification reduces errors and improves compliance
How Veed.io 10x'd organic traffic using a SaaS SEO tool hub strategy
Ahrefs
August 24, 2022
SEO
10
Content marketing
7
Free tools structured as a hub cycle PageRank across every page automatically
Reciprocal internal links mean any backlink earned benefits the entire tool network
High-volume outreach to build links was the engine behind Veed's traffic spike
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Five habits that separate A-players from average performers
Dr. Grace Lee
August 24, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
8
Management
6
Identity & self-belief
5
Stagnancy physically repels A-players — momentum is their default state.
Extreme ownership means zero blame, full accountability, fast course-correction.
Boredom is a warning sign: A-players disengage when under-utilised.
Edwin Land and Polaroid: How a technology monopoly was built on obsession
Founders
August 24, 2022
Origin stories
10
Deep work & focus
7
MVP & prototyping
5
Land invented an entire industry after two decades of failed attempts.
Hiring Ansel Adams as a paid critic: a model every founder should copy.
In 1970, Land described the smartphone — 37 years before the iPhone.
How Pinnacle Security hired its first integrator using EOS
EOS Worldwide
August 23, 2022
Management
10
Business models
10
AI tools & automation
10
Why promoting the wrong internal person damaged trust for a year
Highest salary in company history paid back in freed bandwidth
How to tell you need an integrator: you hate the follow-through
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Stoic strategies for stillness and inner peace in a noisy world
The Daily Stoic
August 23, 2022
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
9
Journaling exposes thoughts you'd be ashamed to admit — and stops them.
Rushing through the present moment means giving that time to death.
Your best ideas arrive when you stop trying to have them.