25 March 2024
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and founder stories, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, EO, and TK Kader. Highlights include Anxiety and excitement feel identical — label it excitement to perform better. Why a 99th-percentile idea matched to founders' skills changes everything
Showing 34 digests for 25 March 2024.
Speaking confidently and on the spot: techniques from a Stanford communication professor
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
March 31, 2024
Public speaking
9
Resilience & grit
6
Anxiety and excitement feel identical — label it excitement to perform better.
Six reusable structures (PREP, ADD, AAA, WHAT, Four Eyes, What/So what/Now what) for any spontaneous situation.
You must prepare to be spontaneous — improvability, not innate talent, drives improvement.
From failed voice app to $1.4B analytics company: lessons from Amplitude's founder
EO
March 31, 2024
Case studies
10
Product-market fit
8
B2B sales
5
Why a 99th-percentile idea matched to founders' skills changes everything
Charging too late cost Amplitude over a year of wasted runway
Each growth stage breaks what worked in the previous one
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Three ways to position your AI product in a crowded market
TK Kader
March 31, 2024
AI strategy & adoption
9
Branding
7
B2B sales
6
Saying 'we use AI' no longer wins buyers — specificity does
Co-pilot, prediction, automation: each archetype commands a different price
ICP plus manifesto plus Broadway show turns positioning into pipeline
Content marketing
YouTube
How to generate warm leads from social media using a content system
KeyPersonOfInfluence
March 31, 2024
Content marketing
9
Prospecting & outreach
9
Funnels
7
Post pain, news, and prize content three times weekly to stay top of mind.
Send 10 cold DMs per post and form a 10-person mutual-engagement group for traction.
Convert engaged followers via scorecard tools and book them into workshops or one-to-ones.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to hire, leverage, and replace a COO at the right growth stage
Cameron Herold
March 30, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Wrong COO costs 15x salary; right one returns 4x their cost
Seven distinct COO types — match the type to the growth stage
Every senior hire has a shelf life: two doubles is the limit
How Alex Goldberg built a $1M/year affiliate site as a side hustle
Starter Story
March 30, 2024
SEO
9
Niche selection
8
Prospecting & outreach
7
Be first in an uncrowded niche — not best in a crowded one
Don't quit your job until side income replaces your full salary
Direct brand partnerships outperform ad networks at scale
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Three traps blocking top performers from career advancement
Dr. Grace Lee
March 30, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Communication
7
Being indispensable at your current level prevents promotion.
Tactical communication signals you belong in a tactical role.
Comparing yourself to others creates distorted self-perception, not progress.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How Quentin Tarantino built a filmmaking career through obsessive study
Founders
March 30, 2024
Identity & self-belief
8
Deep work & focus
7
Origin stories
6
A decade of extra reps from watching adult films at age seven.
Floyd's unproduced Black cowboy script seeded Django Unchained thirty years later.
Film directors don't improve with age — why Tarantino plans to quit on top.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Brent Underwood found purpose by buying a ghost town
The Daily Stoic
March 30, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
8
Goal setting
5
Nine years of apprenticeship before buying a ghost town — not luck.
A hotel fire became the moment that built a community.
Passion is not found; it is uncovered from your past self.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Seven Habits Dan Martell Used to Rewire His Mind for Success
Dan Martell
March 29, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Productivity & habits
8
Resilience & grit
7
Toxic environments and vices block the brain from absorbing success habits.
Daily reading, journaling, and JFDI action compound into identity change.
A thousand-day commitment turns ambitious dreams into inevitable outcomes.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoicism as daily practice: living philosophy in ordinary moments
The Daily Stoic
March 29, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Socrates taught philosophy by how he lived, not lectured.
Cato trained indifference to judgment by inviting it daily.
Resilience in ordinary moments is harder than courage in crisis.
Building a resilient social media business: lessons from Cassey Ho
Masters of Scale
March 28, 2024
Business models
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Community building
6
Why a single viral platform can't be trusted — ever
Fan demand, not strategy, turned a YouTube channel into two product brands
Hiring for skill without culture fit nearly ended the business
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Building a fortress of habits to resist stress and overwhelm
Brendon Burchard
March 28, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
7
Your habits are a fortress — consistency is what keeps the walls standing.
Relationships are the most underused habit for handling stress.
Mastery means building so much joy that stress loses its force.
How to find low-competition keywords using Semrush's keyword magic tool
Semrush
March 28, 2024
Question keywords are consistently lower-competition than broad topic terms
Zero-difficulty keywords are usually worthless — target 'easy', not 'very easy'
Niche, specific keywords often carry higher commercial intent than generic ones
Ten low-investment business ideas worth starting in 2024
Silicon Valley Girl
March 28, 2024
Business models
9
AI tools & automation
6
MVP & prototyping
5
Stay in your niche — switching industries resets your expertise clock.
AI tools in a niche you own is the highest-leverage 2024 move.
Airbnb finder, faceless YouTube, and local meal delivery top the list.