4 March 2024
This week's additions focus on leadership, mindset, and strategy, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Cameron Herold, and Rob Walling. Highlights include Most PM roles are theater: output delivery dressed up as product work. 50 podcast appearances mean nothing without a resharing system
Showing 29 digests for 4 March 2024.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How to stop being surprised by stress and take command of it
Brendon Burchard
March 7, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Stress is always preceded by warning signs you already ignored
Mastering stress — not erasing it — unlocks your next level of success
A pill without a plan is why most people stay stuck in overwhelm
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
Five ways pay transparency laws will reshape your HR practices
HR Party of One
March 7, 2024
Compliance & regulation
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Hiring & recruitment
5
Posting a fake-wide salary range is a legal and reputational risk
Workers in several states can now demand pay data before accepting promotions
Third-party recruiters must follow the same transparency rules you do
Business operating systems
Podcast
How TikTok builds product, culture, and advertising at scale
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
March 7, 2024
Business operating systems
9
Culture building
8
Global product strategy
7
TikTok's 'context, not control' culture treats every employee as a business owner.
Engineering, product, and sales share context through 180-person cross-functional meetings.
Run 10+ ad creatives per week — TikTok's content graph rewards volume, not Meta tactics.
Seven skills every effective COO must have
Cameron Herold
March 6, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
6
The right COO depends entirely on who the CEO is.
People skills — conflict, coaching, collaboration — are non-negotiable.
CEO must invest in the relationship like a marriage, not a role.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Growth, grit, and grace: Guy Kawasaki on becoming remarkable
GaryVee
March 6, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Motivation
6
Grit beats talent — Kawasaki would choose grit every single time.
Overnight success is a myth; durable results require years of unglamorous work.
Remarkability follows from making a difference, not from chasing recognition.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
How Google's Mel Silva uses thinking days to reclaim strategic focus
How I Work
March 6, 2024
Deep work & focus
9
Time management
8
Delegation
5
One blocked day every six weeks beats scattered morning slots.
Prep with three questions in advance — outputs are mind maps and decisions.
Deep thinking time never appears by chance; you must create the intervention.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Reid Hoffman and Jeff Berman on the refounder mindset
Masters of Scale
March 5, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Delegation
8
Long-term planning
7
Refounders invest in the company five to ten years out, not this quarter.
Handing over authority requires cutting off access to the old leader completely.
Inherit culture carefully — protect what works before changing anything.
Founder interviews
Podcast
From reluctant developer to profitable SaaS founder via accidental niche
Startups For the Rest of Us
March 5, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Bootstrapping
8
Product-market fit
6
Why swearing off SaaS led Jordan to build a profitable API business
Took 300 videos private after 8,000 subscribers came from the wrong audience
TinySeed funded at $300 SaaS MRR — vertical focus mattered more than revenue
Founder interviews
YouTube
Founder intuition, A/B testing, and building Rewind AI
EO
March 5, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Conversion rate optimisation
6
Pivoting
6
Overriding your gut for advisors is a founder's biggest regret
Over-hiring killed Optimizely's momentum after $85M raised
Hearing loss sparked a decade-long quest to give humans perfect memory
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
Why most online course creators fail and what actually works
Sunny Lenarduzzi
March 5, 2024
MVP & prototyping
9
Growth hacking
8
Broad niches kill courses — specific outcomes are what actually sell
Buyers pay for transformation and efficiency, not information
One client went from six years struggling to $30K in six weeks
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
ERISA Summary Plan Description Requirements for HR Professionals
HR Party of One
March 5, 2024
Compliance & regulation
9
Any employer offering benefits must comply with ERISA regardless of size.
New enrollees must receive a plain-language SPD within 90 days.
Material benefit reductions require an SMM distributed within 60 days.
The stoic case for saying no and protecting your time
The Daily Stoic
March 5, 2024
Time management
9
Productivity & habits
6
Every yes silently cancels something more important in your life
Antoninus, Truman, and Agrippinus modeled no as a system, not rudeness
Clarity on priorities means you never have to deliberate — it's just no
Long-term planning
Podcast
Building a million-dollar business to finance a deep life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
March 4, 2024
Long-term planning
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Customer discovery
7
Your freedom number is probably lower than you think.
Real courage means asking one person to pay you today.
Doubling down on what works beats chasing new ideas.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Content creation and career risk-taking are still worth starting today
GaryVee
March 4, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Content marketing
7
Attention is a free market — skill beats timing every time.
Regret outlasts failure; trying and losing is always recoverable.
Africa's youth population and digital growth are being wildly underestimated.