This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life, TK Kader, and The Daily Stoic. Highlights include Limit to one or two resolutions — goals need systems, not just targets Outsourcing go-to-market before $3M ARR is where most startups die

Productivity & habits

Podcast

Making Essential Activities Effortless and Sustainable

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life December 26, 2022

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Productivity & habits 9

Deep work & focus 6

• Sustainable pace beats heroic effort—Amundsen reached the South Pole while Scott's team burned out.
• Set upper and lower execution bounds to protect consistency without guilt or energy depletion.
• Convert essential drudgery into enjoyable rituals by combining activities you already do.

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Time management

YouTube

The buyback loop: three steps to escape founder overwhelm

Dan Martell December 26, 2022

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Time management 10

Delegation 7

Processes & SOPs 6

• Audit your calendar to expose the tasks silently draining you
• Record yourself working to train replacements with zero extra time
• Fill reclaimed time with skills, beliefs, and identity — not busywork

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Why the pre-holiday work week is actually the ideal work week

Deep Questions with Cal Newport December 26, 2022

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Productivity & habits 8

Work-life balance 8

Long-term planning 6

• Busyness reduces output — a lighter schedule would increase it
• Career capital is the only route to genuine control over your work
• Teen Luddites: avoiding social media is becoming cooler than using it

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Origin stories

Podcast

Andrew Carnegie: lessons from an immigrant who built and gave away a fortune

Founders December 26, 2022

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Origin stories 9

Long-term planning 7

Resilience & grit 6

• Why knowing costs to the penny beats chasing higher prices
• Carnegie's father was ruined by technology; Carnegie got rich from it
• Concentrating entirely on one business is how fortunes are built

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