11 March 2024
This week's additions focus on strategy, mindset, and leadership, with new digests from Cameron Herold, Rob Walling, and EO. Highlights include Investing $500k in masterminds returned 10X — here's why A three-stage framework stops you building before the market wants it
Showing 27 digests for 11 March 2024.
AI tools & automation
Podcast
Humane AI Pin: building a screenless, wearable personal AI companion
How I Built This with Guy Raz
March 14, 2024
AI tools & automation
9
Product-market fit
6
Business models
5
Apple's iPhone designers built a wearable to cure screen addiction.
Your AI pin remembers your life and acts at the speed of thought.
No wake word, hardware LED transparency, user-owned data only.
Stoic lessons on presence, ego, and emotional control
The Daily Stoic
March 14, 2024
Time management
9
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Time you rush through is already lost — it belongs to death
Confidence is the middle ground between arrogance and self-doubt
The gap between stimulus and response is where discipline lives
How to write and roll out a Vivid Vision for your company
Cameron Herold
March 13, 2024
Vision & mission
9
Culture building
6
Long-term planning
5
Why a one-sentence vision statement will never align your team
Three years is the only horizon that creates real momentum
Roll out to leadership first, customers last — order matters
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Practical mindset shifts for entrepreneurs: fear, content, and attention
GaryVee
March 13, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Content marketing
7
Reframe fear as a vortex you escaped, not a character flaw
The first second of your content is the only second that matters
You can give freely in public and still charge for detailed work
Listener Q&A: landing pages, buying a SaaS, and choosing a tech stack
Startups For the Rest of Us
March 12, 2024
Niche selection
8
Bootstrapping
7
MVP & prototyping
6
Citing Basecamp to skip marketing is a trap — they succeeded via luck and timing
Buy a micro-SaaS through a broker; start small to build pattern recognition
Non-technical founders without a co-founder face compounding, hard-to-detect code risk
How Kata.ai built an AI chatbot platform for 200+ enterprises
EO
March 12, 2024
Case studies
10
Pivoting
9
Business models
8
Hyperlocal language data is the moat global AI models cannot replicate
Pivoting from 50 human agents to B2B platform required laying off 90 staff
One viral chatbot with a consumer brand unlocked the entire enterprise pipeline
How to outsell competitors by niching down your online course
Sunny Lenarduzzi
March 12, 2024
Niche selection
9
Content marketing
6
Pricing psychology
5
Selling transformation — not information — unlocks premium pricing and scale.
A specific niche and unique selling proposition eliminate real competition.
Audience size is irrelevant; the right audience converts, the wrong one doesn't.
Closing techniques
Podcast
How to give persuasive presentations and close with confidence
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
March 11, 2024
Closing techniques
9
Public speaking
7
94% of sales professionals admit a presentation mistake cost them a deal
Being boring is the top flaw others notice — not being too informative
Debate strategy turns vague closes into clear, confident asks
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Obsessing over quality is the path away from busyness
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
March 11, 2024
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Vision & mission
6
Turning down $1M was Jewel's smartest career move.
Quality makes slowness necessary — then makes it enforceable.
The control trap: success brings faster offers, not slower ones.
Competitive analysis
Podcast
Cornelius Vanderbilt's war to destroy William Walker
Founders
March 11, 2024
Competitive analysis
9
Case studies
8
Management
5
Vanderbilt funded a multi-country military campaign to destroy one man.
Walker thought legality protected him from the world's richest private citizen.
Steamships built his fortune; railroads made him richer than the US Treasury.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Embracing mistakes, gratitude, and accountability as founder mindsets
GaryVee
March 11, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Motivation
5
Expecting to lose every day removes the fear of losing.
Accountability feels like self-blame but actually restores your power to act.
Smelling your roses without accepting them keeps hunger and perspective alive.
Everybody is doing their job: thinking from the other person's perspective
The Daily Stoic
March 11, 2024
Communication
7
Resilience & grit
6
Competitive analysis
5
Patience is your job; difficult people are just doing theirs.
Kennedy resolved the missile crisis by seeing Khrushchev's weakness first.
We excuse our own mistakes but treat others' errors as character flaws.