9 January 2023
This week's additions focus on strategy, mindset, and operations, with new digests from Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life, TK Kader, and Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth. Highlights include Burnout is a structural problem across six work factors, not a willpower failure. Go-to-market must start in parallel with product, not after.
Showing 28 digests for 9 January 2023.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How a Calm Mind Increases Productivity
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
January 15, 2023
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Resilience & grit
5
Burnout is a structural problem across six work factors, not a willpower failure.
Stimulation fasts recalibrate your dopamine baseline, deepening focus and presence.
Calm activates brain networks for deliberate action; anxiety only narrows your options.
Long-term planning
YouTube
Ten mistakes first-time SaaS founders make and how to avoid them
TK Kader
January 15, 2023
Long-term planning
8
Hiring & recruitment
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Go-to-market must start in parallel with product, not after.
An empty seat beats a low performer who drags the team down.
Map every customer touchpoint from day one — renewals shouldn't surprise you.
Iteration & feedback loops
Podcast
What makes high-performing product teams and why context kills generic advice
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 15, 2023
Iteration & feedback loops
8
Management
7
Business operating systems
7
Dysfunctional teams all fail alike; high-performing teams succeed differently.
Strategy-structure coherence matters more than any specific framework.
Most product advice is context-free and built for Silicon Valley startups.
How to boost your WordPress SEO with All-in-One SEO plugin
Neil Patel
January 14, 2023
SEO
8
Automation & tools
5
Title tags under 50 characters consistently outperform longer ones
One plugin audits keywords, links, and readability automatically
Control exactly how every page appears in Google search results
Content marketing
YouTube
How a non-singer launched a music career through hard work and the internet
Silicon Valley Girl
January 14, 2023
Content marketing
8
Business models
7
Resilience & grit
6
Passion and work ethic beat raw talent every time
A vocal coach transformed her voice in just five sessions
The internet lets anyone reach an audience without industry gatekeepers
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Don't disgrace yourself: Stoic integrity and self-accountability
The Daily Stoic
January 13, 2023
Seneca and Bacon wasted brilliant lives by compromising for ambition.
Hold yourself to the strictest standard; extend tolerance to everyone else.
Reading only what confirms your views stops you examining your own assumptions.
How a ClickUp consultant structures her entire workday in ClickUp
Layla at ProcessDriven
January 13, 2023
Processes & SOPs
9
Automation & tools
8
Business operating systems
5
Running a team with no Slack — ClickUp notifications replace it entirely
Every meeting is a task with agenda, prep subtasks, and live notes
SOPs, coaching reviews, and company goals all live as ClickUp tasks
How to price your B2B product: avoid the three most common mistakes
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 12, 2023
Pricing strategy
10
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Automation & tools
5
Pricing improvements drive 4x the revenue impact of acquisition gains.
Evernote users paid out of guilt — a sign the free tier was too generous.
Hybrid usage-based models beat pure seat or pure consumption pricing.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Growing meat from cells: how Upside Foods built a new food category
Masters of Scale
January 12, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Business models
7
Cultivated meat takes 2–4 weeks to grow; livestock takes years.
FDA's first-ever safety green light for a cultivated food product, November 2022.
Bringing Tyson and Cargill in as investors — without giving them the IP.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Six productivity hacks for busy founders and executives
Neil Patel
January 12, 2023
Productivity & habits
9
Automation & tools
6
Cap meetings at 30 minutes to force preparation and eliminate rambling.
Batch content creation to compress a month's output into hours.
Becoming less involved — not less committed — removes you as a bottleneck.
When to DIY vs outsource your digital marketing
Semrush
January 12, 2023
Growth hacking
9
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Consistency gaps, not lack of budget, are the main outsourcing trigger.
Learn a channel before hiring — ignorance lets agencies fleece you.
Email stays in house; search and social are outsourcing-friendly.
How Splasheo pivoted product and kickstarted growth in seven months
TK Kader
January 12, 2023
Niche selection
9
Pivoting
8
Product-market fit
6
A vague ICP makes every downstream decision — product, messaging, targeting — wasted effort.
Narrowing to a follower-count sweet spot made LinkedIn targeting immediately actionable.
Pivoting to mobile-first short video required tweaks, not a rebuild, and restarted growth.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Being a good human is the best business strategy
GaryVee
January 12, 2023
Founder interviews
9
Vision & mission
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Scorekeeping in relationships makes you manipulative, not strategic
A $14K dinner with no ROI expectation can yield a $6M client
Rooting for competitors is a competitive advantage most people lack
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
How to keep your culture guide accurate and compliant each year
HR Party of One
January 12, 2023
Compliance & regulation
9
Culture building
8
Gaps between your guide and actual practice damage manager authority
New laws take effect 1 January — compliance sections must update immediately
Managers who onboard new hires spot outdated details fastest
Competitive analysis
Podcast
Hermes: how six generations of family stewardship built the world's most defensible luxury brand
Business Breakdowns
January 11, 2023
Competitive analysis
9
Branding
7
Pricing strategy
6
Hermes pulls hit products to avoid ubiquity — and the board applauds.
40% operating margins with zero design, technology, or competitive risk.
Six generations of family ownership repelled the world's richest acquirer.