What's New

This week's additions focus on strategy, finance, and marketing, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Rob Walling, and TK Kader. Highlights include Ramp hit $100M ARR with 50 people — here's the operating system behind it Three bootstrapping paths exist — only one direction of travel is possible.

Work-life balance

Podcast

The four-hour workday: doing less to achieve more

Deep Questions with Cal Newport July 31, 2023

Work-life balance 9

Deep work & focus 8

Productivity & habits 7

Cutting your workday in half often produces better output, not less.
All work limits are artificial — tighter limits just force smarter workload pruning.
Explicit workload negotiation beats the implicit grind most knowledge workers endure.

Founder interviews

YouTube

How a serial investor built seven global funds by staying curious and saying yes

EO July 31, 2023

Founder interviews 10

Fundraising & VC 7

Resilience & grit 6

First-generation founders need capital and mentors, not just knowledge
Portfolio diversification across 30-40 bets is how VC risk actually works
Overthinking kills action — commit first, figure it out as you go

Community building

YouTube

EOS Integrator Masterclass: peer learning and community building

EOS Worldwide July 31, 2023

Community building 7

Business operating systems 5

Management 5

Peers in the room teach as much as the instructor does.
Attendees proactively built community beyond the formal curriculum.
Break-time conversations multiplied learning across dozens of integrators.

Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Paul Graham's framework for doing great work

Founders July 31, 2023

Identity & self-belief 9

Niche selection 6

Deep work & focus 6

Curiosity is a better career guide than prestige or planning
Per-project procrastination disguises itself as busyness — spot it early
Colleagues often make the difference between great work and merely good

Content marketing

YouTube

GaryVee's practical advice on content, ads, and retention for DTC brands

GaryVee July 31, 2023

Content marketing 8

Paid ads 7

Retention & loyalty 6

Run paid ads against content that already went viral organically
A 12-month subscription plan can nearly double customer lifetime value
Call lapsed customers to thank them — not sell — for real churn insight

What's New

31 July 2023

The four-hour workday: doing less to achieve more

How a serial investor built seven global funds by staying curious and saying yes

EOS Integrator Masterclass: peer learning and community building

Paul Graham's framework for doing great work

GaryVee's practical advice on content, ads, and retention for DTC brands

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