This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Rob Walling, Ryan Deiss, and Dylan Davis. Highlights include Pricing is the biggest lever — one number change can unlock overnight growth. Three hidden spend categories quietly drain cash as companies scale

Deep work & focus

Podcast

Eight small habits for deeper work and life

Deep Questions with Cal Newport July 15, 2024

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Deep work & focus 10

Productivity & habits 9

Resilience & grit 6

• Reciprocal meeting blocks prevent your calendar from drowning in meetings
• Work quotas give you a defensible reason to say no
• Practicing hard things builds discipline as a trainable threshold

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Origin stories

YouTube

EOS implementer rides 100 miles to fund sexual assault survivors

EOS Worldwide July 15, 2024

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Origin stories 9

Resilience & grit 6

• $27,800 raised in under a week from a single bike race
• A client's $50-per-mile pledge made quitting financially unacceptable
• Personal connection to survivors turned physical suffering into purpose

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Founder interviews

Podcast

How Paul English built KAYAK into a $1.8B travel search engine

How I Built This with Guy Raz July 15, 2024

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Founder interviews 10

Business models 8

Product-market fit 7

• A thin UI layer beat giants: simplicity was the real product.
• Lost 80 cents per user until 70% returned directly by name.
• Bipolar diagnosis at 25 shaped his management style for decades.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Practicing gentleness over anger: a Stoic guide for an imperfect world

The Daily Stoic July 15, 2024

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Resilience & grit 9

• Anger makes situations worse — gentleness is the stronger response.
• Marcus Aurelius chose pragmatic engagement over cynicism or retreat.
• Redirect rage: delegate, depersonalise, and skip the last word.

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