Issue #5: This week’s 5 most popular stories, tools, ideas, and books

Top tools

1. Taplio: Grow and monetize your LinkedIn audience.
2. Looka: Design your own beautiful brand.
3. Typeshare: Everything you need to start writing online.
4. Riverside.fm: The easiest way to record podcasts and videos in studio quality from anywhere.
5. QuillBot: Rewrite literally any sentence using state-of-the-art AI.

Top stories:

1. The real reason Shopify just fired 1,000 employees 1 day before quarterly results—by
   Jano le Roux
2. Here are a few ways to make $100,000+ from your bedroom in the next 12 months—by
   Tim Denning
3. Stephen King’s 6 practical tips can improve your writing and editing—by
   Noorain Ali
4. Lessons from making $4,502 of passive income—by
   Niharikaa Kaur Sodhi
5. I discovered the easiest way to make money, and I hate it—by
   Zulie Rane

Top books:

1. 12 Rules for Life: An antidote to chaos
2. Can’t Hurt Me: Master your mind and defy the odds
3. Man’s Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
4. The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
5. Principles: Life and Work

Top ideas:

1. “Ten years ago most of the people I talked to dreamed about quitting their job to build the next unicorn and make a lot of money. Now most of the people I talk to dream about building a small, profitable online business to live life on their own terms.”—Andrea Bosoni
2. “It’s a tough world out there for creators… Over half of Google searches end without a click. And social media platforms ding you for linking out. What to do? Beat the platforms at their own game. Make Zero-Click Content. Here’s how”—Amanda Natividad
3. “Those of us in the content marketing space are facing a weird time right now with layoffs, budget cuts, and general uncertainty. The good news is that writing, as a skill, is recession-proof.”—Kaleigh Moore
4. “An underrated reason why some ambitious high slope people change jobs every few years is that their org/company will always maintain some residual memory of their skills & abilities from 1–2 yrs ago and cannot fully appreciate who they are now. A job change resets the y-intercept.”—Shreyas Doshi
5. “Create content so good that you ask your friends to read, watch or listen to it.…instead of simply asking for amplification.”—Amanda Natividad

See you next week,

Start it up team

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