This week's additions focus on mindset, leadership, and strategy, with new digests from Rob Walling, EO, and TK Kader. Highlights include Build content bottom-up: stage five closes deals first. Why academic business knowledge fails when you actually build.

Communication

YouTube

Gary Vaynerchuk on identity, kindness, and leadership

GaryVee October 7, 2024

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Communication 8

Identity & self-belief 6

• Why Gary ranks 'nice guy' above CEO in his own title list
• Kindness and empathy as direct drivers of lasting business success
• Eliminating employee fear is his core leadership strategy

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Pivoting

Podcast

Paperless Post: building a premium digital invitation business from scratch

How I Built This with Guy Raz October 7, 2024

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Pivoting 8

Business models 8

Fundraising & VC 8

• Why investors were wrong that no one would pay for digital invitations
• Killing a working revenue model mid-launch to save the company
• COVID erased a decade of growth in one month — how they survived

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Relationships & family

Podcast

Memento mori: practising love and connection as a Stoic discipline

The Daily Stoic October 7, 2024

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Relationships & family 8

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• Every second spent is gone — we are already dying
• Stoic sympathia: we are all one body, not isolated islands
• If you want to be loved, love — kindness is the only formula

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