11 November 2024
This week's additions focus on strategy, leadership, and mindset, with new digests from TK Kader, KeyPersonOfInfluence, and Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth. Highlights include Starting micro SaaS first gives you traction, optionality, and momentum. Trump's Joe Rogan appearance reached 100M people; Kamala's media clips reached hundreds of thousands
Showing 44 digests for 11 November 2024.
Are you a coachable leader? How your behavior shapes your team
Bill Gallagher
November 12, 2024
Culture building
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Your team's passivity and lateness are habits you taught them.
No scaling tool works if the leader won't change their own behavior.
A CEO who asked for honest feedback then never called back.
Selling SaaS when customers don't know they have a problem
Startups For the Rest of Us
November 12, 2024
Niche selection
9
Prospecting & outreach
8
Growth hacking
6
Target buyers who've used your tool before — not strangers.
Near-zero churn means nothing if no one knows the category exists.
Majority acquisition via broker can replace building from scratch.
Ingvar Kamprad and the principles that built IKEA
Founders
November 12, 2024
Origin stories
10
Business operating systems
7
Bootstrapping
6
Cost obsession as competitive weapon: why Kamprad called waste a mortal sin
Supplier boycott forced IKEA to design its own furniture — and invent flat packing
He worked from age 17 to 91; his deepest regret was missing his sons' childhoods
How to turn your hobby into a $10k/month online business
Sunny Lenarduzzi
November 12, 2024
Business models
9
Customer discovery
8
B2C sales
7
Selling your time as a hobbyist guarantees burnout — here's the exit.
Test your offer with live clients and get paid before building anything.
A $1k course plus automated YouTube leads can hit $10k/month.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Humility Is the Social Media Secret: Stop Worrying, Start Posting
GaryVee
November 12, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Social media
6
Humility kills insecurity — believe you're nobody, nothing can stop you.
Follower counts are dying; individual content quality now decides reach.
Stop planning, stop fearing: record your comeback video right now.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Financial freedom is not real freedom: lessons from Epictetus
The Daily Stoic
November 12, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
A Roman slave became freer than emperors through philosophy
Your energy points: spent on what's outside your control, wasted
Having strong opinions about everything is self-imposed imprisonment
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How sobriety transformed productivity, confidence and daily consistency
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
November 11, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Alcohol quietly erodes consistency long before it becomes an obvious problem.
Brain healing lags physical recovery by 30+ days — dry January stops too early.
Sobriety unlocked career ambitions, confidence, and consistent output for Gillian.
Copywriting and media buying: why being a marketer first is the real edge
Matthew Volkwyn
November 11, 2024
Copywriting
9
Sales systems & CRM
7
Automation & tools
6
Writing is only 10–20% of the job — numbers and offer matter more.
A broken offer cannot be fixed by better copy, ever.
Copywriters who skip the close are actually just content writers.
Vivid Vision: how to align your company around a shared future
Cameron Herold
November 11, 2024
Vision & mission
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
Culture building
7
A written 3-year company picture that makes alignment automatic
One company went from $110M to $512M using this method
Wrong people repelled by design — the magnet must push as well as pull
Conflict resolution
YouTube
How to prepare for a conversation with someone you don't trust
Coaching for Leaders
November 11, 2024
Conflict resolution
9
Communication
7
Trust breaks down in four distinct domains, not all at once.
90% of trust-damaging behaviour is unintentional — the other person rarely knows.
Attacking behaviour, not character, is the only way forward in conversation.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Digital detox after elections: unplugging, reading, and reconnecting
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 11, 2024
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Election cycles hijack attention through compulsive checking and emotional overload
A November–December social media and news podcast break resets your nervous system
Books, in-person time, and nature outperform scrolling for rebuilding clarity
Long-term planning
YouTube
How to choose between big tech, startups, and founding your own company
EO
November 11, 2024
Long-term planning
9
Origin stories
6
Big tech teaches scale; startups teach zero-to-one — pick deliberately
Skills learned at Google must be actively unlearned to found a startup
Burnout comes from lack of progress, not from working too many hours
Founder interviews
YouTube
From oil brokerage burnout to EOS implementer and Atlantic rowing
EOS Worldwide
November 11, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Business operating systems
6
Management
5
Two burnouts weren't enough — it took a third to finally quit
Rowing the Atlantic unsupported: 52 days, hallucinations, no real sleep
True teamwork only began after both men broke down on Christmas Day
Social media growth for creators: platform strategy, brand deals, and gut instinct
GaryVee
November 11, 2024
Social media
9
Growth hacking
8
Community building
6
Follower counts are nearly irrelevant — individual content wins now
DM every brand your family uses; deals follow within six months
Live shopping is where social media was in 2012 — move early