Curate, Empower, and Grow: Lessons from Naval Ravikant, Deb Liu, and Dan Martell + Glasp’s Latest Milestones
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📚 3 Good Recommendations
Curate People
by Naval Ravikant (42 mins)
Summary: Naval argues that a startup’s edge comes from curating people: founders must personally own recruiting (along with fundraising, strategy, and product vision) because early hires set the company’s DNA. Seek geniuses who are self-motivated, low-ego, and builder-artists, keep a uniformly high bar (e.g., “interview anyone here” test), and be willing to fire when the bar slips. Keep teams tiny, opinionated, and protected from distraction so they can iterate fast and ship simple, excellent products.
Ideal for: Founders and startup leaders, product builders, hiring managers, and investors who want a practical lens on assembling elite early teams and structuring culture for zero-to-one execution.
Why It’s Worth Your Time: Offers a clear playbook for attracting undiscovered, multidisciplinary talent, creatively breaking rules on roles/comp/structure, and maintaining taste and simplicity in product. You’ll leave with concrete tests and principles to avoid mediocrity creep and keep a small team operating at world-class levels.
The Simple Secret to Influence
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Summary: Deb Liu’s The Simple Secret to Influence explains that true influence lies in making others feel capable, not in proving one’s own intelligence. Great leaders empower others through curiosity, clear communication, and generosity—creating psychological safety where people feel heard and valued.
Ideal for: Readers interested in leadership, mentoring, or communication—especially managers, team leads, and professionals who want to build stronger trust and impact through empathy and connection.
Why It’s Worth Your Time: The piece distills powerful lessons on how to inspire confidence in others, showing that influence grows not from dominance but from helping people leave interactions feeling smarter, stronger, and more motivated.
The 21 Principles of the Top 0.01%
by Dan Martell (47 mins)
Summary: A fast, practical tour of 21 success principles: adopt uncommon mindsets (be misunderstood, extreme ownership, think in decades), make better decisions with simple frameworks (1–3–1 questioning, 10–80–10 creative loop), and build leverage (content, capital, code, collaboration) while buying back time and serving others.
Ideal for: Entrepreneurs, creators, and operators—especially founders, managers, and ambitious professionals seeking clearer focus, scalable systems, and a service-first approach to growth.
Why It’s Worth Your Time: Distills big ideas into plug-and-play moves (delegate to buy time, share freely like a “river,” engineer luck, invest where your calendar/bank account show) that boost output immediately while compounding over decades.
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