30 September 2024
This week's additions focus on mindset, leadership, and strategy, with new digests from TK Kader, KeyPersonOfInfluence, and Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth. Highlights include A 20% win rate means you need $5M pipeline per $1M revenue. Key persons of influence say 'look at that' — influencers say 'look at me'
Showing 38 digests for 30 September 2024.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Breaking bad habits: barriers, habit stacking, and temptation bundling
How I Work
October 3, 2024
Identify which of four barriers blocks your habit change first.
Habit stacking piggybacks new behaviours onto automatic existing ones.
Temptation bundling replaces willpower with pleasure as the motivator.
How one CEO cut her 60-hour work week in half
Layla at ProcessDriven
October 3, 2024
Delegation
9
Processes & SOPs
8
Productivity & habits
6
Overwhelm is almost never a headcount problem — it's a focus problem.
Cutting routine frequency alone recovered 20 hours per month team-wide.
Delegation requires active effort upward, not passive hand-offs downward.
Business operating systems
Podcast
Gardener thinking, slime mold teams, and navigating AI disruption with Alex Komoroske
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
October 3, 2024
Business operating systems
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Productivity & habits
7
Gardener mindset beats builder mindset: compound returns beat capped effort.
LLMs tilt the room five degrees — old product intuitions are now subtly wrong.
Taste — a perspective distinct from the LLM average — is the new moat.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Breaking cultural constraints to unlock personal and professional potential
Bill Gallagher
October 2, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Culture building
6
Everyone carries an invisible 'vase' — a childhood fear of imperfection.
Shattering yours has real consequences, but costs more if you don't.
Leaders who spot hidden potential in others unlock outsized team performance.
How to build quality backlinks using SEMrush's three core tools
Semrush
October 2, 2024
SEO
9
AI tools & automation
5
Broken links on competitors' sites are ready-made backlink opportunities.
Buying cheap backlinks risks Google penalties, including deindexing.
Referring domain count matters more than total raw backlink volume.
Social media, AI disruption, and finding meaning in work
GaryVee
October 2, 2024
Communication
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Management
6
AI will restructure labour the same way the tractor did.
Social media brands that act human win on charisma, not budget.
Work takes up most of your life — do something you actually like.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Brigid Delaney on Living Like a Stoic for a Year
The Daily Stoic
October 2, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Founder interviews
5
Stoicism as daily practice, not a philosophy you study once
Anger is society's biggest problem — and Stoicism's clearest remedy
Why accepting what you can't control still demands political action
The Blacklist expands from Hollywood scripts to unpublished novels
Masters of Scale
October 1, 2024
Business models
9
Case studies
8
Bootstrapping
6
Hollywood's risk assumptions are wrong — and fixing them unlocks $30B+
Blacklist scripts earn 90% more revenue than comparable non-Blacklist films
Novelists can now reach publishers and film producers through one platform
How to run effective daily team huddles
Bill Gallagher
October 1, 2024
Communication
9
Processes & SOPs
8
Standing meetings keep every contribution short and on-point.
A one-word open builds authenticity and clears mental clutter.
Only track KPIs that actually change daily — skip the rest.
Dan Martell's complete guide to building a $100M business
Dan Martell
October 1, 2024
Pricing strategy
8
Outsourcing & delegation
8
Hiring & recruitment
7
Hire people to buy back time, not just to grow headcount
Private equity and private credit outperform stocks for ultra-wealthy investors
Your money mindset — not your income — is what keeps you poor
Founder interviews
YouTube
Nikil Viswanathan on pivoting 16 times to build a $10B crypto platform
Silicon Valley Girl
October 1, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Pivoting
8
Product-market fit
7
Alchemy was their 16th pivot — most ideas were scrapped within two weeks
Confidence built in a small town beat Stanford-level competition for 18 years
Crypto's real value is invisible infrastructure, not trading or NFTs
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Good vs. bad distractions, blind spots, and why founders don't need to be right most of the time
Startups For the Rest of Us
October 1, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
8
Identity & self-belief
7
The worst distractions disguise themselves as productive work
A blind spot is a weakness you can't fix because you can't see it
Roger Federer won 80% of matches winning just 54% of points
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to build and sell a scalable online course from scratch
Sunny Lenarduzzi
October 1, 2024
MVP & prototyping
9
Conversion rate optimisation
8
Closing techniques
6
Broad topics don't sell — one specific client transformation does
Sell a live prototype first; record only after clients get results
50 interviews can generate six figures before you build anything
What is a dry promotion and how to manage one
HR Party of One
October 1, 2024
Management
9
Outsourcing & delegation
5
37% of firms gave dry promotions in 2023 — more than one-third.
No pay rise plus more responsibility breeds resentment and turnover.
Works only when a documented compensation timeline backs it up.
Conversion rate optimisation
YouTube
Stripe head of design Katie Dill reviews startup websites
Y Combinator
October 1, 2024
Conversion rate optimisation
9
Branding
7
Copywriting
6
Every pixel either earns its place or erodes user trust.
State who the product is for before asking for attention.
Your pre-click ad shapes conversion more than the landing page.