24 October 2022
This week's additions focus on marketing, strategy, and mindset, with new digests from Noah Kagan, TK Kader, and Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth. Highlights include Top brokers start near-broke; Serhant earned $9K his first year. Formal value props kill trust — plain language wins every time.
Showing 26 digests for 24 October 2022.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Kobe Bryant's Mamba Mentality: obsession, study, and relentless improvement
Founders
October 26, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Deep work & focus
7
Greatness is built in private through obsessive, unglamorous work.
Kobe systematically sought out legends to download their knowledge.
Identify your weaknesses ruthlessly — then fix them until they're gone.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Patience and speed: how Tory Burch built a billion-dollar brand
Masters of Scale
October 25, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Pivoting
7
Culture building
6
Why patience and speed aren't opposites — they're a sequence.
Tory Burch held her foundation idea for 15 years before going public.
Pulling from department stores and waiting on China protected the brand.
How Title Alliance scales leadership development across 40 locations
Cameron Herold
October 25, 2022
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Mandatory enrolment turns leadership training into a cultural standard.
Weekly progress reports create accountability across the whole cohort.
Graduates must commit to one measurable behaviour change before finishing.
How to turn skills into financial freedom: a five-step formula
Sunny Lenarduzzi
October 25, 2022
Pricing strategy
9
Cash flow management
8
Business models
7
Your financial freedom number is smaller than you think
Price on the cost of your client's problem, not your time
Knowing your exact client target eliminates the need to hustle
Conversion rate optimisation
YouTube
How to deliberately de-optimize buttons you don't want clicked
Joanna Wiebe
October 25, 2022
Conversion rate optimisation
9
Pricing psychology
6
Reverse every CTA rule to make low-value buttons invisible.
Muted colors and commitment-heavy copy kill unwanted clicks.
De-optimizing one button lifts conversion on competing buttons.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Understanding the neuroscience behind procrastination and sleep
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
October 24, 2022
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Resilience & grit
5
Procrastination is fear-driven, not laziness—identify underlying threats to break the cycle
Your brain sustains focus for 60–90 minutes; working past that destroys productivity
Sleep consolidates memories and restores cognition; poor sleep cascades into burnout
How to write meta descriptions that increase click-through rates
Neil Patel
October 24, 2022
Having any meta description boosts clicks by 5.8% over none.
Matching the exact search query in your description lifts CTR 5.7%.
Google's rules prevent mistakes — but won't teach you how to win.
Seven underused SaaS marketing strategies beyond the standard five
Rob Walling
October 24, 2022
Growth hacking
9
Content marketing
7
MVP & prototyping
5
Alternative-to pages rank in Google before you have brand recognition.
Capterra buyers are near purchase decisions — high cost, higher conversion.
In-person events pay off when a single deal covers the entire trip cost.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Why the world rewards courageous decisions
Dan Martell
October 24, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Walking away from millions to bet on yourself pays off
Real risk must genuinely scare you — most founders play it safe
Luck shows up, but only action lets you answer the door
Work-life balance
Podcast
Millennials, middle age, and the deep reset: reconfiguring life with intention
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 24, 2022
Work-life balance
8
Productivity & habits
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Why millennials are primed for radical, intentional life overhaul right now
Candle FIRE: cut costs enough to work half-time without quitting entirely
TikTok is Blue's Clues for adults — and Facebook is following it off a cliff
Business operating systems
YouTube
How EOS uses the Issues Component to solve problems permanently
EOS Worldwide
October 24, 2022
Business operating systems
10
Management
7
Why your team keeps discussing the same issues without resolving them
IDS: a three-step track that forces root causes and named actions
How to build a culture where every team member raises issues freely