This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and marketing, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Rob Walling, and Starter Story. Highlights include Why MVP means something completely different when safety failures kill people Skip Type 1 — go straight to Type 2 for enterprise credibility

Identity & self-belief

Podcast

What we really seek when we seek the simple life

Deep Questions with Cal Newport April 3, 2023

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Identity & self-belief 9

Productivity & habits 7

Business operating systems 6

• The simple life is about escaping overload, not avoiding work
• Deconstruct inspiring stories to find actionable changes you can make now
• Slowness — no single day being critical — is a fundamental human need

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Founder interviews

YouTube

From software engineer to $125K/year niche YouTuber

Starter Story April 3, 2023

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Founder interviews 9

Growth hacking 7

• Affiliate marketing — not AdSense — drives 80% of his income
• Timing and prior data matter more than production quality for virality
• Consistent output, not talent, separates creators who make it

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Founder interviews

Podcast

Yvon Chouinard: building Patagonia on quality, simplicity, and purpose

Founders April 3, 2023

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Founder interviews 10

Identity & self-belief 8

Business models 7

• Why 'make the best, period' beats competing on price
• Teaching company philosophy to employees revealed Chouinard's own 'why'
• YARAC: why leaders must invent crises to keep companies evolving

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