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

Culture building

YouTube

How CEOs can energise teams through gratitude, presence, and praise

Cameron Herold March 25, 2024

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Culture building 9

Management 8

Resilience & grit 5

• Praise twice for every criticism or new project you assign.
• Your state before the meeting determines the energy inside it.
• Every business area lead's most important team is the whole company.

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AI strategy & adoption

Podcast

AI agents and the end of inbox overload in knowledge work

Deep Questions with Cal Newport March 25, 2024

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AI strategy & adoption 8

Deep work & focus 8

Work-life balance 6

• Why language models can't manage your inbox — they can't simulate the future.
• The Cicero diplomacy bot shows the path: language model plus planning engine.
• Eliminating context-switching would transform knowledge-work productivity far more than any task tool.

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Case studies

Podcast

Isaac Larian: Building MGA Entertainment and Taking on Barbie

How I Built This with Guy Raz March 25, 2024

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Case studies 10

Business models 9

Resilience & grit 8

• Bet the house on Bratz when Toys R Us cancelled — and won
• A decade of Mattel litigation nearly destroyed the company and the founder
• LOL Surprise was born from watching kids unbox iPhones on YouTube

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic resilience and the trap of seeking approval

The Daily Stoic March 25, 2024

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

• Why expecting hardship protects you better than hoping to avoid it
• Social media is engineered to exploit your need for validation
• Doing work for approval guarantees it will break your heart

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