This week's additions focus on mindset, leadership, and strategy, with new digests from Rob Walling, Ryan Deiss, and Silicon Valley Girl. Highlights include Freemium is a marketing strategy — your price is literally zero Your default founder type is probably the wrong one right now

Resilience & grit

YouTube

Chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley on continuous improvement and learning from mistakes

Coaching for Leaders September 9, 2024

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Resilience & grit 8

Goal setting 7

Management 5

• Stop chasing the goal — become the person who naturally achieves it
• Elite performers obsessively revisit basics; simplicity always hides more depth
• Your biggest lead is your most dangerous moment — complacency kills momentum

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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Three rules for getting notably good at something valuable

Deep Questions with Cal Newport September 9, 2024

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Deep work & focus 9

Productivity & habits 7

Long-term planning 5

• Most careers worth having take a decade — use that as a moat
• Social media tricks creators into thinking engagement is real work
• Traction points, not passion, are what you should be hunting for

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Post-mortems

Podcast

Groupon's rise and fall, and Andrew Mason's second act with Descript

How I Built This with Guy Raz September 9, 2024

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Post-mortems 9

Pivoting 7

• Scarcity was the business model — clones destroyed it within two years.
• Mason turned down Google's $5B offer, then lost the company anyway.
• Descript was born from internal tooling built for a failing audio tour startup.

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