8 January 2024
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Cameron Herold, Rob Walling, and TK Kader. Highlights include Entrepreneurs were vilified before the dot-com era made it cool ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis builds a working ML lead-scoring classifier in 45 minutes.
Showing 33 digests for 8 January 2024.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How to think more innovatively and build products that matter
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 11, 2024
Identity & self-belief
8
Product-market fit
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
Good ideas always look dumb first — the more disruptive, the dumber.
Users only adopt when value gained vastly outweighs effort to switch.
AI will make pixels as cheap as the internet made information distribution.
Do technical founders need a business co-founder?
Y Combinator
January 11, 2024
Vision & mission
8
Hiring & recruitment
7
Appetite to do the work matters more than title or background.
Google, NVIDIA, Stripe — built without a business co-founder.
Investor advice to 'get a biz co-founder' hides the real problem.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Hiring a COO: how to find the right second in command
Cameron Herold
January 10, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Management
5
The COO role is defined entirely by what the CEO lacks
Hiring on pedigree without culture fit ends in costly misfires
A structured 90-day observe-then-act onboarding prevents early mistakes
How a fractional integrator proves the model and hires her replacement
EOS Worldwide
January 10, 2024
Case studies
10
Hiring & recruitment
6
Processes & SOPs
5
A fractional integrator's real job is making herself replaceable.
Industry expertise is irrelevant — asking good questions builds faster trust.
One year with a fractional hire gave the visionary the clarity to hire full-time.
Attention and organic social media are the only sales levers that matter
GaryVee
January 10, 2024
Social media
9
Branding
7
Paid ads
6
Attention is the only asset — everything else is downstream of it.
Post organically at scale; turn viral content into paid ads.
Every brand you admire quietly ate failure for years first.
Physical & cognitive performance
Podcast
How Lisa Leong turned burnout and shingles into a personal health lab
How I Work
January 10, 2024
Physical & cognitive performance
8
Physical health & longevity
7
Resilience & grit
5
Being fit and healthy are not the same thing.
Qigong beat every biohacking gadget for restoring joy.
Work backwards from age 100 to build your daily habits.
Ideal customers, B2C to B2B transitions, and go-to-market for bootstrapped SaaS
Startups For the Rest of Us
January 9, 2024
Business models
9
Customer discovery
8
Pricing strategy
7
Free users rarely pay — validate before chasing a competitor's displaced audience.
Freemium at $20/month can't be bootstrapped; the math requires venture-scale traffic.
Changing your target market forces changes to product, model, and channel simultaneously.
Product-market fit
YouTube
Building a profitable online course around a core transformation
Sunny Lenarduzzi
January 9, 2024
Product-market fit
9
Content marketing
8
Niche selection
7
Googleable courses fail — urgency and specificity determine price
Start with the outcome, reverse-engineer your ideal client
Application-only sales filters out wrong-fit clients before they damage your brand
What employee rust-out is and how to prevent it
HR Party of One
January 9, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
6
Boredom and under-stimulation are as damaging as overwork
Pre-rust-out signals are easy to miss — and fixable
Career pathing and upskilling turn disengagement into growth
Physical & cognitive performance
Podcast
Breaking sugar addiction and building lasting health habits
How I Work
January 9, 2024
Physical & cognitive performance
9
Productivity & habits
6
Physical health & longevity
5
Saying "I don't" instead of "I can't" boosts healthy choices by 50%
Sleep restriction — less time in bed — is the most powerful insomnia cure
Post-meal 10-minute walks significantly blunt blood glucose spikes
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Mailbag: Self-awareness, sleep, delegation, and productivity tools
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
January 8, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Delegation
5
Your chronotype determines whether early rising will actually work for you
Knowing the minimum a shared tool requires frees you to use your own system
Delegation fails without doing the task together first — documentation is key
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to rebuild self-esteem through progress, alignment, and service
Brendon Burchard
January 8, 2024
Identity & self-belief
10
Resilience & grit
6
Why ignoring your wins keeps self-esteem frozen for decades
Congruence must run tight and consistently — occasional alignment doesn't count
Gossip, comparison, and rapid judgment are the three forces silently eroding confidence
How to keep a delegating CEO engaged without disrupting what works
Cameron Herold
January 8, 2024
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
5
Bored CEOs who've delegated well start sabotaging what works
Fixed quarterly projects give CEOs purpose without operational interference
Structured skip-level meetings keep CEOs engaged and informed
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Slow distractions: why downtime quality shapes your life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
January 8, 2024
Deep work & focus
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Fast distractions short-circuit human instincts; slow ones actually satisfy them.
Slow downtime makes days feel longer, richer, and more memorable.
Career success requires building rare skills, not waiting to be chosen.
Business operating systems
YouTube
EOS Scorecard: track 5–15 weekly numbers to stay ahead of problems
EOS Worldwide
January 8, 2024
Business operating systems
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Scorecard tracks 5–15 forward-looking, activity-based weekly Measurables.
13-week rolling view reveals trends before they become serious problems.
Replaces reactive financial-statement reviews with proactive weekly data.