17 July 2023
This week's additions focus on leadership, mindset, and operations, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Rob Walling, and TK Kader. Highlights include PMs facilitate decisions — not make them — to keep teams unblocked Charge for early access from day one — never give it away free
Showing 31 digests for 17 July 2023.
Why your pages aren't ranking higher in Google
Ahrefs
July 19, 2023
New pages often need six-plus months before rankings stabilise
Mismatched search intent is a content issue you must fix first
Spammy backlinks don't count — quality referring domains win
Automation & tools
YouTube
When to invest in a platform vs. ship something simple
Cameron Herold
July 19, 2023
Automation & tools
8
Management
6
Freeze IT builds for 12 months; find 12 free solutions instead
Simple tools that work beat complex integrated platforms
Headcount is not a scalable fix — build leadership skills
How operations managers can advance to director and COO level
Cameron Herold
July 19, 2023
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
5
Title inflation masks true level — scope and pay reveal the reality
Read what your CEO reads to close the strategic thinking gap
Top performers at every level still use coaches — so should you
How Samuel Clemens reinvented himself and became Mark Twain
Founders
July 19, 2023
Origin stories
9
Resilience & grit
7
Losing your dream career is often how you find your real one.
Every major break came through mentors, not talent alone.
A throwaway story written near-suicidal became his first viral hit.
Content marketing
YouTube
5 tips for researching blog content
Joanna Wiebe
July 19, 2023
Content marketing
8
Processes & SOPs
5
Research is a continuous habit, not a pre-writing task.
Clip one data point at a time to keep research reusable.
Tags let you retrieve past research quickly, months later.
AI tools & automation
Podcast
Reid Hoffman on AI as a cognitive steam engine and what comes next
Masters of Scale
July 18, 2023
AI tools & automation
9
AI strategy & adoption
9
Business models
5
Why pausing AI only slows the people who care about safety
Larger models are easier to align — not harder
8 billion people need AI access; inequality argument cuts both ways
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Luck, burnout, and hiring to test your marketing channel
Startups For the Rest of Us
July 18, 2023
Resilience & grit
8
Growth hacking
7
Productivity & habits
5
Bootstrappers who rely on luck can't repeat their wins.
Burnout is cheapest to fix when caught before it lands.
Hire a channel expert first — eliminate bad execution before blaming the tactic.
Building a team-driven business that runs without burning you out
Sunny Lenarduzzi
July 18, 2023
Culture building
9
Delegation
8
Processes & SOPs
5
A business you love needs people you trust to run it without you
Automation and delegation turn a job into a legacy business
In-person team time reveals alignment that remote work can hide
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Boomerang hires: pros, cons, and how to onboard them
HR Party of One
July 18, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
9
Processes & SOPs
5
Known work ethic and faster ramp-up cut hiring risk.
Unresolved exit issues can quietly poison team morale.
Full onboarding still required — even for returning employees.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Finding Your Ideal Productivity System Through Energy Management
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
July 17, 2023
Productivity & habits
9
Work-life balance
6
Your productivity system must align with your energy, not just your time.
Shallow work maintains systems; deep work builds them—both matter strategically.
Track weekly patterns to stop borrowing tomorrow's energy for today's tasks.
How to reduce wasted spend and improve Google Ads ROI
Neil Patel
July 17, 2023
Paid ads
8
Automation & tools
5
Billions in ad spend is wasted due to poor campaign management
A quality score of 7+ and a 4.76% CTR are realistic targets
Free audit tool pinpoints exact waste and provides step-by-step fixes
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Four strategies to build confidence from self-doubt
Dan Martell
July 17, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Productivity & habits
6
Goal setting
5
Breaking private commitments to yourself silently destroys confidence
Volume of reps matters more than quality when starting out
Helping others for free is the fastest way to feel capable
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Fixed schedule productivity: how Cal Newport manages workload
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
July 17, 2023
Productivity & habits
10
Processes & SOPs
6
Fixed hours are a workload management tool, not just a time hack
Waiting until stressed to say no keeps you permanently overloaded
Quotas and calendar pre-planning make refusals defensible and specific
A structured framework for generating and vetting business ideas
Dylan Davis
July 17, 2023
Niche selection
9
MVP & prototyping
8
Long-term planning
6
Start with a specific community you belong to, not a blank page
10x excitement in a small group beats 60% lukewarm interest
95% of ideas die in the writing phase — that's the point
Business operating systems
YouTube
First-timer's guide to getting the most from the EOS Conference
EOS Worldwide
July 17, 2023
Business operating systems
9
Management
5
Sessions fill fast — move rooms early or miss out
10x goals are simpler than 2x goals, not harder
Bring your visionary partner; it doubles the value