3 July 2023
This week's additions focus on leadership, strategy, and mindset, with new digests from Rob Walling, EO, and TK Kader. Highlights include AI hallucinations can quietly erode trust with non-technical customers Everyone has the same idea — only execution creates winners
Showing 26 digests for 3 July 2023.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
How to start an AI automation agency from scratch
Brett Malinowski
July 5, 2023
AI tools & automation
9
Prospecting & outreach
8
Business models
7
Partner with existing agencies to land dozens of clients at once
Charge based on value delivered, not hours — use the rule of 10
YouTube tutorials with 200 views can close $10k+ in agency deals
How to convince resistant leaders that organizational evolution is necessary
Cameron Herold
July 5, 2023
Management
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
30 years of experience is often five years repeated with no growth
Private lunches with blunt data points beat direct confrontation
A tech-savvy junior hire can outperform a stagnant veteran leader
Nine key takeaways from MicroConf US 2023 in Denver
Startups For the Rest of Us
July 4, 2023
Case studies
9
Communication
7
Growth hacking
6
Why low-touch SaaS founders are pivoting to high-touch service offerings
Founder mental health: everyone had a story, no one had permission to share it
Replies beat viral tweets for building a loyal, aligned Twitter audience
Walt Disney and Picasso: creativity, character, and lasting legacy
Founders
July 4, 2023
Case studies
9
Resilience & grit
8
Productivity & habits
6
Evil and creative genius can coexist — but love outlasts contempt.
Disney built his greatest creation, Disneyland, at age 54.
Constraints forced resourcefulness that became Disney's lifelong edge.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
How Stoics build mental toughness by embracing adversity
The Daily Stoic
July 4, 2023
Resilience & grit
10
Identity & self-belief
6
Seeking out hard things on purpose builds the muscle to handle unavoidable adversity
Every situation has two handles — perspective is the one thing always in your control
Courage is evidence-based, not innate; you cultivate it through repeated hard choices
Work-life balance
Podcast
Workstyle: designing when and where you work around your life
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
July 3, 2023
Work-life balance
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Management
5
Workstyle is not flexible working — it replaces the system entirely.
Autonomy improves well-being, and well-being directly drives productivity.
Set, project, respect: a three-step method to individualise your schedule.
Scaling a business from zero to $100 million in revenue
Neil Patel
July 3, 2023
Niche selection
10
Hiring & recruitment
8
Pricing strategy
6
Small market size kills growth before bad execution ever does
Hire competitors' promoted employees to scale from $10M to $100M
Give away free software to generate leads; sell services to convert them
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to fix compensation and title inflation in a fast-growing team
Dan Martell
July 3, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
8
Management
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Inflated titles create pay gaps that trap founders in awkward negotiations.
A compensation audit against market rates exposes who's over- or under-paid.
Milestone-based L&D plans turn title gaps into a growth roadmap employees accept.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Why cybernetic productivity fails and what to do instead
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
July 3, 2023
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
8
Faster tools just fill your plate with more work.
Cal's grandfather wrote 15 books with no computer.
Attention allocation beats speed every time.
Founder interviews
YouTube
How vulnerability, decisions, and discipline transformed a struggling agency
EOS Worldwide
July 3, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Business operating systems
6
Management
6
Naming the real problem out loud is what makes fixing it possible.
Growth and profitability are different metrics — don't confuse one for the other.
Find the minimum commitment you'll never miss before adding ambition.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Don't live for the algorithm: follow your happiness as a creator
GaryVee
July 3, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Founder interviews
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
Algorithm addiction traps creators in a self they've already outgrown.
Fear of judgment — not money — is what stops most people from evolving.
Limiting toxic relationships beats cutting them; cutting leaves you stalemated.