1 July 2024
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Rob Walling, Ryan Deiss, and TK Kader. Highlights include Three co-founders outgrow solo and duo teams by 2–3x on average Surplus cash in your operating account will always get spent
Showing 32 digests for 1 July 2024.
Employee onboarding process for small remote businesses
Layla at ProcessDriven
July 4, 2024
Processes & SOPs
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
Automate offboarding now — forgotten credentials are a real security risk.
Pre-start silence kills enthusiasm; drip optional, low-effort touchpoints instead.
30/60/90 reviews only work if KRAs were defined before the hire started.
How Chick-fil-A built culture by hiring it, not training it
Bill Gallagher
July 3, 2024
Case studies
9
Culture building
8
Branding
6
Chick-fil-A's hiring process is months-long — character beats competency.
Operators earn half of store profit, making every employee behave like an owner.
A $2M coupon disaster led to abandoning discounts and outsmarting every competitor.
Mineral Resources: how a founder-led miner built a $12B compounder
Business Breakdowns
July 3, 2024
Case studies
10
Business models
8
Capital allocation
7
InfraCo earns fixed infrastructure fees with zero commodity price exposure
Internal construction delivers projects at half the time, one-third the cost
Selling InfraCo stakes converts 30% ROIC projects into 80%+ ROIC outcomes
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How to write cold emails that get responses
Semrush
July 3, 2024
Prospecting & outreach
10
Replace every 'I/my' with 'you/your' to shift the email's focus
Specific references to dates and details beat generic compliments every time
Offering to promote their content gives publishers a reason to say yes
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Why chasing success won't make you happy: the neuroscience of balance
The Daily Stoic
July 3, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Goal setting
8
Vision & mission
6
Surplus in one neurotransmitter bucket can't fill the others.
Achievement culture locks people into dopamine and serotonin at the expense of everything else.
True flourishing requires community, civic duty, and invisible labor accounted for.
Long-term planning
YouTube
How to write quarterly priorities that drive consistent action
Bill Gallagher
July 2, 2024
Long-term planning
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Vague priorities like 'boost marketing' fail — specificity drives execution.
Every priority needs a verb, a metric, one owner, and a date.
Annual initiatives and quarterly priorities are distinct layers of planning.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How to prioritize focus in your startup and personal life
Startups For the Rest of Us
July 2, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Work-life balance
6
Outsourcing & delegation
5
Grinding harder often means working longer on the wrong things.
Say no by default — only a handful of ideas deserve your focus.
Do the work closest to the customer; delegate everything with an SOP.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
The venture mindset: decision principles from Silicon Valley investors
EO
July 2, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Pitching investors
7
Fundraising & VC
5
Top VCs have higher failure rates — and still outperform everyone.
Invert the filter: ask 'why not?' before 'why yes?'
Cold emails work: 1 in 6 investors respond to a well-crafted pitch.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Inside a two-day mastermind for online course creators
Sunny Lenarduzzi
July 2, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Community building
5
Ego — not competition or economy — is your biggest business obstacle
Skipping daily gratitude leads to burnout, resentment, and downward spirals
A burning ritual helped 40 creators physically leave their mental baggage behind
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
Payroll tax withholding: what employers must know and do
HR Party of One
July 2, 2024
Compliance & regulation
9
Employers must match every dollar of FICA taxes employees contribute
Seven states have no income tax — everyone else faces flat or graduated rates
Form W-4 on day one determines every employee's federal withholding amount
Mental health & wellbeing
Podcast
Stoicism's blind spots: what the philosophy gets wrong
The Daily Stoic
July 2, 2024
Mental health & wellbeing
7
Suppressing emotions backfires — science shows they recur stronger.
Justice is Stoicism's least-discussed virtue, but its most important.
Stoicism prepares you well; it often skips the performance entirely.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Rhythms, routines, and crafting a rule of life
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
July 1, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Goal setting
6
Your life already has a rule — the question is who set it.
A 24-hour Sabbath makes your other six days more productive.
Work-life balance is a category error: life sets the terms, not work.
Business operating systems
YouTube
How to build a scalable operating system to exit the day-to-day
Ryan Deiss
July 1, 2024
Business operating systems
9
Delegation
6
The more valuable you are to your business, the less valuable it is
Map value engines first — every other system depends on them
Inc 5000 companies fail at a higher rate than average startups
Google Analytics 4 practical guide for marketers switching from Universal Analytics
Semrush
July 1, 2024
Data & analytics
9
Data & analytics
7
Automation & tools
6
Funnel explorations with forecast benchmarks expose underperforming steps instantly
Custom reports only become useful once saved to a published collection
Tag Manager beats direct G tag for any non-trivial GA4 implementation
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Why social media is the junk food of digital content
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
July 1, 2024
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
7
Work-life balance
6
TikTok algorithms engineer content like food scientists engineer Doritos.
Avoiding social media isn't anti-tech — it's just skipping junk food.
Smartphones given to under-15s will seem as reckless as Dunkaroos.