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.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Leadership and hiring lessons from Snowflake's CFO after three IPOs
EO
March 28, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Delegation
7
Micromanaging someone means you're about to fire them
Quarterly bonuses force honest feedback that annual ones never do
Title inflation is the most common and damaging startup hiring mistake
Accounting basics
YouTube
Five tax credits HR professionals can unlock for their organization
HR Party of One
March 28, 2024
Accounting basics
8
Compliance & regulation
6
HR's workforce knowledge is the key input tax advisors need to claim credits.
Five federal credits reward hiring barriers, benefits, and paid leave.
Creative veteran hiring netted one small business nearly $12,000 via WOTC.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Ryan Holiday on time, process, and mentorship at Live Nation Q&A
The Daily Stoic
March 28, 2024
Productivity & habits
8
Delegation
6
Success is a lagging indicator — invest now for future creative output.
Focus on process, not outcomes; the score takes care of itself.
Mentorship ensues from value exchange, never from asking directly.
Automation & tools
YouTube
Build a branded client portal using SmartSuite and Softr
Layla at ProcessDriven
March 28, 2024
Automation & tools
9
Customer experience
6
One source of truth in SmartSuite, zero copy-paste required.
Magic-link login means clients never manage passwords.
Conditional filters show each client only their own data.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Building generative AI foundation models without billions of dollars
Y Combinator
March 28, 2024
AI strategy & adoption
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Niche selection
6
YC startups built foundation models in weeks using only GPU credits.
Data quality beats data volume — narrow scope unlocks smaller, cheaper models.
Physics simulation connects video AI to weather, biology, robotics, and CAD.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Elad Gil on building, investing, and scaling from seed to unicorn
EO
March 27, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Long-term planning
8
Fundraising & VC
7
The best investments always look overpriced until they aren't.
You don't need a co-founder, a great idea, or experience to start.
Raise capital only when it genuinely accelerates market capture.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Career advice from a GaryVee fireside chat with young professionals
GaryVee
March 27, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Productivity & habits
5
Burnout comes from insecurity, not hard work you actually love.
Self-worth tied to others' opinions is the root of most career anxiety.
Patience and complacency are different — go hard daily, relax about timeline.
Kemi Nekvapil on purposeful planning, values-led decisions, and coaching presence
How I Work
March 27, 2024
Goal setting
9
Management
6
Relationships & family
5
Stop seeking recognition from people who have never offered it.
Clear values make saying no a decision, not a dilemma.
A yearly solo retreat, not January resolutions, drives real goal clarity.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Finding enough: sobriety, ambition, and what actually moves the needle
The Daily Stoic
March 27, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Work-life balance
7
High spenders report no more happiness than moderate ones — wealth plateaus fast.
Sam quit alcoholism cold turkey twice; a dog and an Oasis concert were the turning points.
Twitter breaks more people than psychedelics — audience capture is a documented pattern.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Angel City FC built a $200M women's soccer franchise from scratch
Masters of Scale
March 26, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Business models
8
Fundraising & VC
7
99 investor rejections forced a pivot to mission-aligned backers
Community co-ownership built a sellout fanbase before the first game
Year one revenue hit 4x projections, proving women's sports as investable
Customer discovery
Podcast
Validation frameworks, prior art credit, and design by committee
Startups For the Rest of Us
March 26, 2024
Customer discovery
9
Niche selection
8
Uncredited startup ideas aren't homage — they're plagiarism.
Three time-boxed stages replace vague 'validate your idea' advice.
More voices in early product decisions produce blander, weaker output.
Content marketing
YouTube
Growing an online business without constant social media posting
Sunny Lenarduzzi
March 26, 2024
Content marketing
9
Niche selection
7
Email marketing
6
Why posting more content can burn you out without growing revenue
One pillar platform plus an email list beats being on every channel
Retention beats views — the metric that actually predicts client conversion
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
Key April HR compliance dates and deadlines
HR Party of One
March 26, 2024
Compliance & regulation
10
ACA e-filing closes April 1st — missing it means IRS penalties
Form 7004 buys a 6-month tax extension if filed by April 15th
April 30th brings two quarterly tax deadlines: Forms 720 and 941
AI tools & automation
Podcast
AI tools for content creators: a practical guide to what works now
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
March 25, 2024
AI tools & automation
9
Content marketing
6
Train AI on your voice to eliminate hours of repetitive content tasks
Descript's Regenerate fixes audio errors without re-recording guests
Live podcasting is AI-proof — intimacy and imperfection can't be replicated
Six lessons from 25 billionaires on building lasting wealth
Noah Kagan
March 25, 2024
Case studies
9
Niche selection
7
Resilience & grit
6
No billionaire earned their fortune as a W-2 employee.
Every billion-dollar fortune was built on one thing for decades.
The real price of billionaire wealth is time, family, and sacrifice.