16 September 2024
This week's additions focus on leadership, mindset, and strategy, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, TK Kader, and KeyPersonOfInfluence. Highlights include Why staying an IC PM for 12 years beats moving into management B2B referral programs drive 70% higher conversion rates than cold outreach
Showing 39 digests for 16 September 2024.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Maintaining justice without self-sacrifice: a Stoic framework
The Daily Stoic
September 19, 2024
Resilience & grit
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Taylor Swift turned a stolen catalogue into a billion-dollar comeback.
Virtue is a midpoint — giving everything away is itself a vice.
The only measure of effort: did you actually do your best today?
How I Built This Advice Line: Branding, pricing, and finding your audience
How I Built This with Guy Raz
September 19, 2024
Social media
8
Branding
8
Pricing strategy
8
A great name and product still needs a deliberate brand voice.
Premium-priced games need trial before purchase, not donations.
Being your brand's face is unavoidable early — and temporary.
How to define job titles in a small business using a three-level matrix
Layla at ProcessDriven
September 19, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Ownership scope — not seniority — is what defines a job title
Three levels map to five dimensions: when, how, what, who, why
Combine any level name with a function to get a precise, scalable title
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Lean AI practices for driving adoption in large corporations
Lean Startup Co.
September 19, 2024
AI strategy & adoption
10
Management
6
AI adoption fails when solutions ignore user experience over data capability
Validate use cases before committing to full platform investment
Fund AI initiatives based on evidence, not executive enthusiasm
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
How Playground built a state-of-the-art AI image and design model
Y Combinator
September 19, 2024
AI strategy & adoption
9
Product-market fit
7
Case studies
6
Text accuracy, not aesthetics, is the real moat in AI graphic design.
Scrapping CLIP and stable diffusion's architecture unlocked prompt-level control.
Prompt adherence so strong it broke existing aesthetic evaluation benchmarks.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's strategy, open source, and building for the next 20 years
Acquired
September 18, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Long-term planning
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
Why Meta's survival comes from being a technology company, not a social app
Accepting political blame you don't own can cost 20 years of brand equity
Reality Labs and open-source AI are the same strategic bet: own the platform
Using podcast guest appearances to build your brand and business
Bill Gallagher
September 18, 2024
PR & media
9
Content marketing
6
AI tools & automation
5
Guest on 100 shows before you ever start your own
Affiliate deals with hosts outperform ads — one client made $60k
Pitch one sharp story idea; long emails get deleted unread
How to build a homepage that converts visitors into customers
Semrush
September 18, 2024
Copywriting
9
Conversion rate optimisation
8
Design thinking
5
40–60% of homepage visitors bounce — here's why and how to fix it
Benefits sell; features only justify a decision already made emotionally
A seven-section page template that routes visitors from problem to purchase
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How Tim Duggan built a three-day work week and life-first career
How I Work
September 18, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Work-life balance
8
Wrapping identity in a job title creates a painful vacuum when it ends
Job crafting lets you dial up meaning and eliminate what drains you
Put life first — equal time across work, relationships, mind, and body
Capturing meeting commitments with the Who, What, When method
Bill Gallagher
September 17, 2024
Processes & SOPs
8
Management
5
Spoken commitments vanish without a name, task, and deadline attached
Any format works — paper, spreadsheet, or task manager — just capture it
Assign someone who enjoys note-taking to own this role consistently
Productivity & habits
YouTube
12 productivity hacks that cost nothing
Dan Martell
September 17, 2024
Productivity & habits
10
Deep work & focus
8
Motivation
6
Stop doing the things that drain you before optimising the rest.
Artificial urgency and Pomodoro blocks beat willpower every time.
Recovery time is not optional — it is where big decisions are made.
Six realistic side hustles to start building income now
Silicon Valley Girl
September 17, 2024
Case studies
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Build income streams before you need them — urgency leads to bad decisions.
UGC creation pays well with zero followers required.
Consulting your existing expertise is the lowest-effort place to start.
Delegating, SaaS partnerships, and quarterly planning for bootstrappers
Startups For the Rest of Us
September 17, 2024
Delegation
9
Outsourcing & delegation
7
Bootstrapping
6
Delegate certainty; founders belong on risk and uncertainty.
SaaS partnerships fail without a clear mutual-win story upfront.
Quarterly planning only matters once you hit 20-30 employees.
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Carl Pei built Nothing by competing on design, community, and AI timing
EO
September 17, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Competitive analysis
7
Community building
6
Why design is a deliberate strategy to buy time until real tech is ready
Community members co-create products, invest, and blur the line with employees
AI will reset the OS paradigm — and Nothing is betting that levels the field
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
HRCI ethics credit requirement: what it is and how to fulfill it free
HR Party of One
September 17, 2024
Identity & self-belief
10
Goal setting
6
Ethics credit is mandatory for all HRCI designations, every recertification cycle
HR's job is setting the ethical standard, not just administering policy
A free BernieU course earns 1.5 HRCI and SHRM recertification credits