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.
How to tell if your company is recovering from ZIRP
Y Combinator
September 17, 2024
Vision & mission
7
Culture building
7
Resilience & grit
5
Executive turnover and founders going hands-on are positive recovery signals.
Vanity projects and empire-building are ZIRP artifacts — their removal is healthy.
If your company isn't recovering, your equity probably isn't either.
Work-life balance
Podcast
How to define and live your own work style
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
September 16, 2024
Work-life balance
9
Culture building
6
Processes & SOPs
5
Autonomy — not flexibility — is what actually drives well-being and productivity
The nine-to-five creates in-group/out-group dynamics; workstyle replaces it universally
Set, project, respect: a three-step framework to individualize when and where you work
Building a six-figure freelance copywriting business as a digital nomad
Matthew Volkwyn
September 16, 2024
Case studies
10
Prospecting & outreach
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Target mid-sized 'Goldilocks' clients who already value email marketing
Early hustle compounds — the two-hour workday is earned, not assumed
Time-zone gaps become a selling point: work delivered before clients wake up
How a 17-year-old built a $600K/month AI video SaaS
Brett Malinowski
September 16, 2024
Growth hacking
9
Business models
8
MVP & prototyping
6
A course isn't a side hustle — it's infinite paid-ad fuel for SaaS.
Build distribution before the product, or revenue stays zero.
Speed from idea to execution is the only real competitive edge.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
What recruiting experts know about hiring a second-in-command
Cameron Herold
September 16, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Delegation
7
Outsourcing & delegation
5
A-players aren't on job boards — you have to poach them
Know everything about a candidate before they start, not after 90 days
Bonuses demotivate as often as motivate; pay at the 80th percentile instead
How to structure effective one-on-one meetings with your direct reports
Coaching for Leaders
September 16, 2024
Management
10
Communication
8
Weekly one-on-ones boost retention, performance, and deep work time.
Status-update meetings signal the meeting is for the manager, not the employee.
Employees drive the agenda — manager's job is to facilitate, not report.
Why knowledge workers need to stop treating creators like crankers
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
September 16, 2024
Management
9
Productivity & habits
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Treating knowledge workers like factory hands causes burnout — not overwork.
Use money, not praise, to know when a side pursuit is ready.
A 10-minute buffer after every meeting prevents cognitive overload.
Nick Sleep's Nomad Investment Partnership: How great compounding machines are built
Founders
September 16, 2024
Case studies
8
Business models
8
Long-term planning
6
Why the best investors act like founders who never sold
Sharing scale economies with customers beats extracting margins every time
Costco, Amazon, Walmart all run the same engine — and it compounds for decades
How Barefoot Wine turned outsider ignorance into a billion-dollar brand
How I Built This with Guy Raz
September 16, 2024
Case studies
9
Blue ocean strategy
8
Starting $300K in debt with zero wine knowledge paid off.
Marketing wine like beer unlocked a mass market nobody else saw.
Donated wine to fundraisers beat paid advertising — repeatedly.