3 October 2022
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, TK Kader, and EO. Highlights include Retention is almost always the biggest lever — and hardest to move. Your personal strategy directly determines how well your business performs
Showing 25 digests for 3 October 2022.
Building a growth model and marketplace growth strategy
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
October 9, 2022
Business models
9
Product-market fit
7
Unit economics
6
Retention is almost always the biggest lever — and hardest to move.
Liquidity beats GMV: until both sides transact reliably, nothing else matters.
Demand is the currency; supply only matters insofar as it improves buyer experience.
11 personal habits that help CEOs build better companies
TK Kader
October 9, 2022
Goal setting
9
Productivity & habits
9
Work-life balance
7
Your personal strategy directly determines how well your business performs
A rolling 365-day goals system beats annual resolutions every time
Three 'unfair advantages' — brain trust, beast mode, upper limits — separate top performers
Customer discovery
YouTube
Phil Libin on building products, teams, and async communication
EO
October 8, 2022
Customer discovery
8
Hiring & recruitment
8
Processes & SOPs
6
A two-week observation loop finds problems people already live with
Hire for effectiveness first — diverse teams build better products
All information transfer should move to recorded, async video
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Amy Morin on mental strength and resilience
The Daily Stoic
October 8, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Losing your mom at 23 and husband at 26 on the same date shaped a therapist's framework for mental strength
Your narrative about adversity—cursed vs. resilient—matters more than the events themselves
Mental strength comes down to one thing: stop caring what others think about you
Business operating systems
YouTube
Why a former tech executive became an EOS implementer
Rick Fawcett - Expert EOS Implementer
October 7, 2022
Business operating systems
9
Management
6
Leaders trained at different companies bring conflicting management styles.
Accountability charts spread load across the team, not just a few people.
Coaching others to the 'EOS life' beats building another startup from scratch.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic guidance on ambition, mortality, and inner resilience
The Daily Stoic
October 7, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Goal setting
7
Why erring toward kindness resolves the law-versus-justice tension
Stoic ambition means controlling effort, not outcomes
The inner citadel is built through philosophy and deliberate hardship
Automation & tools
YouTube
Building a branded client portal dashboard in ClickUp
Layla at ProcessDriven
October 7, 2022
Replace plain ClickUp dashboards with branded portals using Canva images
Chat widget watchers and share settings determine who sees what
Duplicate the finished dashboard for every new client — never rebuild
Seven ways to turn coworkers into a marketing force
Neil Patel
October 6, 2022
Employee comments drive social algorithms harder than likes or shares
Swag, reviews, and events cost little but compound over time
Culture — not tactics — determines whether employees keep showing up
Leadership lessons for entrepreneurs: what Cameron Herold would tell his younger self
Cameron Herold
October 6, 2022
Management
10
Work-life balance
8
Processes & SOPs
7
ADD and bipolar traits are entrepreneurial superpowers, not disorders
The CEO's job is growing people's skills and confidence, not doing the work
Your five highest-impact tasks, ranked and calendared, beat every productivity system
How to build company culture, vivid vision, and free PR
Cameron Herold
October 6, 2022
Vision & mission
9
Culture building
8
PR & media
6
A four-page future-state document beats any one-sentence vision statement
Culture lives in people systems and core values, never perks
Cold-calling journalists with one story landed 220 newspaper placements in a day
Ranking in Google Maps: the three profile factors that matter most
Semrush
October 6, 2022
Your Google Business Profile is the single most important map ranking factor.
Primary category choice beats all other profile tweaks — spy on top competitors.
Physical address is a major factor you can't control, so don't chase it.
Cloud Forecast's path from $500K to $1M ARR
Startups For the Rest of Us
October 6, 2022
Case studies
9
Delegation
7
SEO
5
Solo on the business side: every new customer adds unshared weight
Bottom-up enterprise motion lets internal champions close deals for you
The hardest shift is moving from doing the work to delegating it
Founder interviews
Podcast
Vannevar Bush: lessons from a six-decade career in science and leadership
Founders
October 6, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Management
8
Delegation
6
Personal relationships with decision-makers make you effective — or irrelevant.
The innovation pipeline: basic research → applied research → commercialisation, still shapes the world.
Inventors invent because they cannot help it — not for money.
Retention & loyalty
YouTube
How to switch payroll providers without disrupting your business
HR Party of One
October 6, 2022
Retention & loyalty
10
AI tools & automation
10
Pricing strategy
9
Manual payroll errors can trigger compliance fines — here's when to leave
Hidden add-on fees often make the cheapest provider most expensive
Year-end switch plus parallel payroll runs eliminates transition risk
Four underused link building tactics worth trying now
Ahrefs
October 5, 2022
Update existing pages with backlinks instead of creating new ones.
Redirects pointing to irrelevant pages are orphaned link opportunities.
Google Ads can break the visibility deadlock for link-bait content.