29 August 2022
This week's additions focus on mindset, marketing, and strategy, with new digests from TK Kader, Joanna Wiebe, and Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth. Highlights include Switching channels without diagnosis wastes money and burns your brand Communicates clearly — no cleverness for its own sake Grabs attention and signals "keep reading" Targets the customer's…
Showing 25 digests for 29 August 2022.
Growing a subscription business: channels, sequencing, and unit economics
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
September 1, 2022
Growth hacking
9
SEO
7
Unit economics
6
Why over-relying on paid acquisition creates a fragile growth engine
Free-to-paid conversion below 5% means paid will never work
Diversify too early and you kill the engine that's actually working
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Zero-sum vs positive-sum thinking for founders and people
Y Combinator
September 1, 2022
Identity & self-belief
8
Vision & mission
6
Zero-sum players only learn when they blow up — no gradual feedback.
FOMO from watching others 'win' obscures whether they're actually cashing out.
Rich and unhappy is real; legacy and money are not the same thing.
Founder interviews
Podcast
The warrior within: service, resilience, and the Native warrior tradition
The Daily Stoic
August 31, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Warriors serve the tribe — fighters serve themselves
Asking for help is the highest expression of courage
The story you tell yourself about what's possible determines everything
How to achieve financial freedom as a bootstrapper
Startups For the Rest of Us
August 30, 2022
Bootstrapping
9
Pricing strategy
5
Work-life balance
5
Why the 4% retirement rule is dangerously outdated today
Save 20x gross income — you can't game it by slashing expenses
How to negotiate a severance instead of quitting your job
Founder interviews
Podcast
Becoming Steve Jobs: How the Wilderness Years Made a Visionary
Founders
August 30, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Management
7
Resilience & grit
6
The dozen years exiled from Apple forged everything great about Jobs.
Ed Catmull taught Steve more about management than anyone else.
Time carries most of the weight — older founders dominate their younger selves.
Memento mori: the Stoic practice of remembering death daily
The Daily Stoic
August 30, 2022
Every minute that passes already belongs to death — spend none poorly.
Seneca's reframe turns age into years already died, not years remaining.
Stoics like Socrates doubled down when threatened — difficulty is no reason to stop.
How to transition careers by identifying priorities, transferable skills, and building a network
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 29, 2022
Goal setting
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Prospecting & outreach
5
Clarity about life priorities must come before any career move.
Every role builds transferable skills — even ones you outgrow.
All client work came through relationships, not formal networking.
Seed funding for startups: what founders need to know
Rob Walling
August 29, 2022
Fundraising & VC
9
Business models
6
90% of startups should bootstrap — not raise any funding
Investor type determines the exit you're allowed to want
Giving up 40% early can permanently destroy your cap table
How to build a growth-minded community wherever you live
Dan Martell
August 29, 2022
Communication
7
Relationships & family
6
Your five closest peers predict your future — choose them deliberately.
Find high-caliber locals through nonprofit boards and business award lists.
Be the connector who creates the recurring event — one hike changes everything.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Cal Newport's three-part planning system for deep work and life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
August 29, 2022
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
9
Goal setting
6
A decade-tested system connecting values to daily time blocks
Open offices reduce face-to-face interaction and productivity, not increase them
Build your ideal life vision around your burnout triggers, not despite them