A Daily Curation of the Web's Best Content for Startups
Interview with Andrew and Pete of Atomic.site – Jay Acunzo
Jay Acunzo interviews Andrew and Pete of the small business membership Atomic.site and the Atomicon event.
“So often, what we need to see greater results in our business isn’t an improvement in productivity. It’s not about just working harder, or even working smarter. Instead, often, it’s about conquering fear. “
Big Idea: Take bigger risks if you want better results.
Lessons from hunting 51 products on Product Hunt
“Here are my top tips to those who are planning to launch their product on Internet’s biggest product discovery platform.”
Using Obsidian as a second brain – Tiago Forte
Tiago Forte asks Obsidian expert Nick Milo: How good is the note taking app Obsidian as a Second Brain? Here’s how Nick rated Obsidian across 10 key Second Brain factors.
The Creativity Supply Chain – Michael Mignano
“Today, not only are the tools easy to use, they’re also increasingly powerful. Plus, we now have immediate access to a limitless ocean of others’ creative work through our powerful smartphones and a world washed in high-speed internet. This combination of ease-of-use and instant, ubiquitous access to content has unlocked the inner creativity in all of us, unleashing a massive, humanity-sized addressable market of opportunity.”
Great conversation the value of blogging on the TropicalMBA podcast.
Dan Andrews, Taylor Pearson and Amanda Cook talk about the opportunities that arise from building your personal brand and platform on a blog or newsletter.
Justin Welsh Shares the 11 No-Code Tools He Uses in his $169k/mo One-Person Business
My one-person business does $169k/mo in revenue. It costs me $623/mo + 2.9% to run it. Here are the 11 no-code tools in my tech stack.
This is a very simple, but valuable framework from Steve Pavlina to make sure you are putting your energies into bigger issues. It’s easy to get distracted with minor problems. Solve the bigger ones to move forward.
Author Ryan Holiday has a great post on maximizing your effectiveness. Posts like this are easy to read and forget. Like all good ideas, they are only valuable if you take action on them. In yesterday’s newsletter, I mentioned the value of business templates to keep you focused and organized. The ideas in Ryan’s post would be a great personal productivity template. Read the post, but better yet, take the time to write out the list so that you can follow the advice every day moving forward.
Challenge: Try writing Ryan’s list in a notebook every day for a week so that you can reflect on whether or not you are following the advice. Anyone can skim a new idea and forget it. Few take action and make it a habit.
“Our desire to be more productive can turn into a harmful addiction to productivity content: a phenomenon known as productivity porn.”
I think people spend way too much time studying how to be more productive and trying new tools, apps, etc. How about just list your 3 most important tasks of the day on a piece of paper and do them first thing each day?
