What's New

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.

Productivity & habits

Podcast

Building a second brain: how to organise your digital life and unlock creativity

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life August 22, 2022

Productivity & habits 9

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
PARA organises everything by active project, not topic category.
Over-optimising your system is the most seductive form of procrastination.

Business models

YouTube

16 lessons from building a million-dollar bootstrapped SaaS

Rob Walling August 22, 2022

Business models 9

Bootstrapping 8

Pivoting 7

Validate before coding — talk to 17 people, not just yourself.
Slow-launch in batches; Drip took five months to fully open.
Fast growth is almost never profitable — plan for it.

Personal finance

YouTube

Wealth mindset: how money, ratio, and vision compound together

Dan Martell August 22, 2022

Personal finance 9

Identity & self-belief 6

Goal setting 5

Wealth is a ratio of income to spend — not how much you earn.
Judging wealthy people installs beliefs that quietly block your own success.
Linking money to external purpose removes the psychological ceiling on ambition.

Time management

Podcast

How the internet's curation models evolved — and why it matters

Deep Questions with Cal Newport August 22, 2022

Time management 7

Long-term planning 6

TikTok's ML loop is the fentanyl of distraction — no fix from inside
Lifestyle-centric planning: design your life first, career second
Email stress comes from the inbox design, not how often you check