29 July 2024
This week's additions focus on marketing, leadership, and mindset, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Rob Walling, and Ryan Deiss. Highlights include Why deep ops experience makes fundamentally better product leaders Your headline should state the outcome, not describe the product
Showing 31 digests for 29 July 2024.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Harry's Co-founder Advises Early-stage Founders on Growth
How I Built This with Guy Raz
August 1, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Culture building
7
Growth hacking
7
Receivables financing can unlock capital without giving up equity
Do the customer-facing work yourself before delegating it
Retention economics determine how much you can spend on acquisition
How the instinctive mind drives brand choice and growth
Bill Gallagher
July 31, 2024
Branding
10
Growth hacking
6
95% of brand decisions are instinctive — not conscious
Familiarity beats uniqueness; distinctiveness beats both
Your core customers hide what's blocking your growth
How to find the best keywords for your website using Semrush
Semrush
July 31, 2024
Keyword difficulty varies per domain — not every keyword suits your site.
Semrush's Personal Keyword Difficulty score is tailored to your specific domain.
Target keywords where your topical authority gives you a real ranking edge.
Social media strategy, parenting, and building community with Gary Vee
GaryVee
July 31, 2024
Growth hacking
9
Community building
7
Resilience & grit
5
Follower counts are obsolete — algorithms reward creative quality, not audience size.
Snapchat Spotlight is the most underused major platform with real creator upside now.
Over-coddling, not social media, is the root cause of kids' anxiety and insecurity.
Founder interviews
Podcast
From Barstool to Food52: Erika Ayers Badan on community, attention, and saying no
Masters of Scale
July 30, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Content marketing
6
Business models
5
Barstool grew from $5M to $300M by betting on personality over polish.
Reaction beats perfection: 830 comments on Fluff-in-Coke vs. six on cheesecake.
Saying no fast is a leadership skill — yes to everything means doing nothing.
Lagging, leading, and balancing KPIs: how to measure any business area
Bill Gallagher
July 30, 2024
Processes & SOPs
9
Unit economics
5
Every business area needs all three KPI types, not just outcomes
Balancing KPIs catch the failure mode your main focus creates
Ignoring purchasing while chasing sales cost millions in wasted stock
How to rank a local business on Google Maps: a full course
Semrush
July 30, 2024
SEO
10
Content marketing
6
Processes & SOPs
5
Your Google Business Profile outweighs every other local ranking factor
A co-working space address near the city centre can legally boost your rank
Responding to reviews — good and bad — is a visible trust signal to future customers
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Reprogram your mind for success: Dan Martell on beliefs, mindset, and high performance
Dan Martell
July 30, 2024
Identity & self-belief
10
Goal setting
8
Resilience & grit
6
Your income reflects your belief about your worth, not the market.
Fear of having something to lose stops most people from levelling up.
Manifestation requires 100% clarity, belief, and consistency — all three.
Managing managers, breaking plateaus, and scaling without rigid frameworks
Startups For the Rest of Us
July 30, 2024
Management
9
Business operating systems
8
Pivoting
6
Plateaus happen at every MRR level — diagnosing the cause is all that matters.
Skip-level meetings keep you on the pulse without undermining your managers.
Add process only when things break — never jump straight to full EOS.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Ten Stoic strategies for handling rude and difficult people
The Daily Stoic
July 30, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Conflict resolution
5
Difficult people are the material of life, not obstacles to avoid.
Marcus Aurelius' 'obstacle is the way' is specifically about people.
Build an inner scorecard — critics and haters can't define your success.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
ADHD in adulthood: late diagnosis, myths, and practical strategies
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
July 29, 2024
Identity & self-belief
8
Productivity & habits
8
Communication
5
Late diagnosis at 46 removed decades of guilt and self-blame
No barrier around your emotional pool — why ADHD dysregulation floods others
Voice-to-ChatGPT-to-Notion: externalising the ADHD brain's overloaded RAM
Founder interviews
YouTube
Teen Copywriter Earns $16K/Month: Lessons from Four Years in the Game
Matthew Volkwyn
July 29, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Copywriting
7
Prospecting & outreach
6
5/10 strategy with 9/10 consistency beats genius applied sporadically.
Target 9-figure clients first — they have systems; startups demand everything.
Non-native English speaker hit $16K/month at 19 via relentless cold outreach.
How to articulate your company vision so others can see it
Cameron Herold
July 29, 2024
Vision & mission
10
Communication
7
Culture building
6
Employees don't lack alignment — they lack access to your vision
A Vivid Vision must repel the wrong people as well as attract the right ones
Expect 3–6 months of lonely dancing before others start to follow
How General CQ Brown leads from his strengths as chairman
Coaching for Leaders
July 29, 2024
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Stop fixing your weaknesses — find someone who has them instead
The theme song you think you're playing may not be what others hear
Silence from the top is intimidating — introversion needs active management
Deep work & focus
Podcast
How to maintain focus and cognitive health during distracting news cycles
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
July 29, 2024
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Six concrete tactics to reclaim focus when breaking news hijacks attention
The hard day protocol: confine anxiety rumination to two scheduled check-ins
Why pseudo-productivity makes you feel guilty for not working during a crisis