The Weekly Startup #9

Welkom to your weekly dose of content. We did the hard work for you and made a selection of the content that's actually worth your time. That is if you still want to level up your hustle game and start living life on your own terms.

In today's email:

• How To Scale Your Business properly. (A video & free course)

• How Compounding Your Knowledge Will Help You To Be Successful.

• 8 Life Rules Worth Breaking. (Enough with all the outside energy)

• Prioritization, multiple work streams, unplanned work.

• How To Ask Your Mentors For Help. (Even if you don't have any)

• A short video on Content Creation. (11 minutes with Logan Paul's video editor)

How To Scale Your Business from 0 to 100M.

I've recently watched a video by Alex Hormozi on scaling your business. But that's not all. He offers free educational resources to help you in the stage from 0 to 1M. Not selling anything (expect a shitload of youtube ads but that's youtube's way of forcing you into premium right?). Anyway, this part is a little more indepth, how I like it. First, let me give you a 40-second teaser to get you in the right mood:

Liked it? Here is the original 55 min video. If you want it faster? I'm leveraging a productivity tip, watching the video on 1.5x the speed. The original is slow enough to make sure that you are still able to follow along twice as fast. But I'll leave that up to you.

If you went a little deeper you've probably already discovered his free educational material. If not, here's the link to the course matterial:

One of the concepts Alex discusses in his video is that of compounding your learnings so that you stack skills on top of each other to help you evolve. So I want to dedicate the next part to this amazing effect. The compounding effect of knowledge.

How Compounding Your Knowledge Will Help You To Be Successful

I’ve recently stumbled upon this article on the big shift in the pace of modern times. I see it, especially with older people who struggle to keep up with technology. And the worst part, it’s getting faster and faster. It states that the pace at which new ideas move doubles every 10 years. So we’ll be in for a treat by the time we hit our pension age…

In his article on the topic, Michael Simmons gives 3 examples you could follow:

1. Follow the pace of the crowd: In other words, do what most people are doing (i.e. get a 9–5 job and do what’s expected of you). This is the least stressful option in the short term, but you risk falling behind in the long term.

2. Work harder than others: This helps you progress in your career faster, but you sacrifice time with family & friends along with personal health… not to mention that you risk losing out to people who are learning more than you.

3. Outlearn others and let your knowledge compound: Learning is the ultimate productivity hack. In other words, it provides the greatest leverage. It’s the tool that the greatest innovators and business thinkers of our time (Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and others) use to get ahead.

His, and my favourite is the third. It’s all about staying updated. Read more about it on my website.

8 Life Rules Worth Breaking

I've linked to Sahil Bloom in my previous mail, and I'll keep shouting his name until you follow him. His content is truly next level. So before I highlight this specific article, I'll urge you to subscribe to his free mailing as well. Thank me later.

Then today's highlighted article. Sahil shares these rules that are probably familiar to you. It's the rules society lays upon us. But some of them are definitely worth breaking. I'll list them for your consideration, if you recognize any you can dive straight into Sahil's article on the subject.

8 rules worth breaking:

• You can only run two burners at once

• You have to become an expert to be successful

• You should wait for the perfect moment

• Don't talk to strangers

• If it ain't broke, don't fix it

• Stick to your plan

• You should save now to enjoy later

• Don't be self-promotional

Prioritization, multiple work streams, unplanned work. Oh my!

Managers face many difficult questions:

Should you have multiple work streams on your team? If so, how many? How do you balance long and short-term priorities? How should you handle unplanned work? What about on-call? How big should your team be?

This post outlines some approaches I’ve found effective in helping my teams maintain focus and get stuff done, amidst all the chaos and unpredictability of the real world.

How To Ask Your Mentors For Help

I have three mentors.

When I’m stuck on a problem and need their help, I take the time to write a good description of my dilemma, before reaching out to them. I summarize the context, the problem, my options, and my thoughts on each. I make it as succinct as possible so as not to waste their time.

Before sending it, I try to predict what they’ll say. Then I go back and update what I wrote to address these obvious points in advance. Finally, I try again to predict what they’ll say to this, based on what they’ve said in the past and what I know of their philosophy.

Then, after this whole process, I realize I don’t need to bother them because the answer is now clear.

If anything, I might email to thank them for their continued inspiration.

Truth is, I’ve hardly talked with my mentors in years. None of them know they are my mentors. And one doesn’t know I exist.

A short video on Content Creation

To wrap this week's newsletter up I'll share this video of Logan Paul reacting to his content editor. If you're looking to create more content yourself it's a fun short video that could give you some new perspectives on content. (To be honest, I don't like the content Logan Paul drops. But this behind the scene's stuff is always nice to watch. Even if we don't like the output, there is a business model behind it that's worth studying.)

How You Can Help Me. (If you like this mailing and want to make it even better)

A short poll, if you answer it, it redirects you to a place where you can leave a comment. Please do me the favor by telling me what you liked the most or what you would like to see more of.

Thank you!

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Thanks again and I'll see you next week with new resources to shake your professional world.