This week's additions focus on leadership, strategy, and founder stories, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Rob Walling, and TK Kader. Highlights include Most project failures are people or process problems, not strategy problems. Audience followers signal support, not product-market fit

Productivity & habits

Podcast

Deep Questions ep. 323: Two types of procrastination and when to give up

Deep Questions with Cal Newport October 21, 2024

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Productivity & habits 9

Project management 6

Deep work & focus 5

• Most procrastination is a time problem, not a willpower problem.
• When systems are fine but progress stalls, you must cut something else.
• Techno-selectionism: you can remove any technology you've already adopted.

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Deep work & focus

YouTube

Nine tools and habits behind a $1.8M/year solo business

Starter Story October 21, 2024

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Deep work & focus 9

Email marketing 7

Social media 5

• A 5-minute Loom video generated $20,000 in pre-orders overnight
• Email marketing at $4k/month returns up to $120k/month
• Reddit's first-customer power only works if you kill the pitch

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Case studies

Podcast

From home hobby to $160M tequila exit in three years

How I Built This with Guy Raz October 21, 2024

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Case studies 10

Branding 7

• A doctor's advice to quit wine sparked a $160M tequila brand
• Targeting moms, not bars, was the overlooked gap in tequila
• Three years from shelf to Diageo acquisition at $160 million

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