27 January 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, leadership, and strategy, with new digests from Rob Walling, StoryBrand With Donald Miller, and TK Kader. Highlights include Lower-priced customers churn at 11% vs. negative 4% for higher-priced ones Repeating a client's exact problem back to them builds instant trust
Showing 48 digests for 27 January 2025.
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
Reid Hoffman on AI superagency and human control
Masters of Scale
January 28, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
Long-term planning
8
Motivation
7
AI distributed widely creates collective superpowers, not just individual ones
You're more likely to lose your job to an AI user than to AI itself
Biggest real risk: AI giving superpowers to rogue states and criminals
SEO in 2025: what still works, what doesn't, and what's next
Startups For the Rest of Us
January 28, 2025
SEO
9
Content marketing
6
Business models
5
Google now rewards brand authority, not link-building — the old playbook is dead.
Relying on SEO alone is dangerous; diversify into at least three channels.
AI content produces average work — and average work no longer wins.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
How to prompt reasoning models for better outputs
Dylan Davis
January 28, 2025
AI tools & automation
10
Prompt engineering
9
Your ChatGPT habits actively hurt performance in reasoning models.
A six-section prompt structure unlocks far higher output quality.
Embed a writing diff in the system prompt to clone your style.
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to build a sustainable $1M business in six months
Sunny Lenarduzzi
January 28, 2025
MVP & prototyping
9
Content marketing
8
Automation & tools
7
Why doing more work builds a trap, not a business
A four-part flywheel where happy clients replace paid marketing
Six-month phase plan from rough prototype to self-sustaining referrals
Mindset, patience, and creativity: Gary Vee and Big Sean on living well
GaryVee
January 28, 2025
Motivation
9
Work-life balance
6
Chasing the trophy instead of the game is why success never satisfies
Positivity is kept private while negativity markets loudly — change that
Over-coddling children destroys their relationship with losing and adversity
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
HR compliance deadlines and key dates for February 2025
HR Party of One
January 28, 2025
Compliance & regulation
8
OSHA Form 300A must stay posted February 1 through April 30.
Form 940 FUTA deadline shifts if you skipped quarterly payments.
ACA Forms 1095-B and 1095-C paper deadline falls February 28.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How to organize your life using Stoic daily habits and principles
The Daily Stoic
January 28, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
6
Resilience & grit
5
Why the Stoics journaled daily — and why sleep followed it was sweet
Structure is not rigidity; it is the precondition for freedom
Memento mori as a daily scheduling tool, not a morbid thought
How Morris Chang built TSMC into the world's essential chip foundry
Acquired
January 27, 2025
Origin stories
9
Business models
8
Never competing with customers is what made TSMC a trillion-dollar company.
Chang personally settled a $100M+ NVIDIA dispute over pizza and a 48-hour deadline.
The learning curve: price ahead of cost, grab volume, and compound your lead.
How storytelling and empathy drive better copywriting
Matthew Volkwyn
January 27, 2025
Copywriting
10
Deep work & focus
6
Story isn't a technique — it's the mechanism by which copy actually works
Mining reviews and Reddit comments beats any AI for finding resonant language
A fiction background is a copywriting advantage; the best have already moved on
How a 23-year-old built a creator placement machine on TikTok
Brett Malinowski
January 27, 2025
Business models
9
Goal setting
7
Content marketing
6
Total beginners earning $10K/month profit with zero ad spend
TikTok Shop turned organic creator content into $100M tracked sales
Retainer plus affiliate beats brand ownership on risk-adjusted returns
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Why every visionary CEO needs a COO to execute
Cameron Herold
January 27, 2025
Hiring & recruitment
8
Culture building
7
Delegation
6
Elon Musk's first company was funded on his COO's credibility, not his vision.
Hire your COO by auditing your own weaknesses and energy drains first.
Culture comes from core values, purpose, and people systems — not perks.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
13 discipline hacks that cost nothing and actually work
Dan Martell
January 27, 2025
Your environment beats willpower every time — so redesign it.
Discipline becomes automatic when habits fuse with your identity.
Review your goals three times a day, not once a year.
How to make remote work actually good: three foundational ideas
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
January 27, 2025
Processes & SOPs
9
Remote teams
7
Time management
6
Unstructured communication is why most remote work feels worse, not better
Remote work unlocks seasonal intensity variation that offices destroy
Working near home beats working from home for cognitive context
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to find the right co-founder for your startup
EO
January 27, 2025
Hiring & recruitment
8
Culture building
7
Management
5
Design your co-founder relationship intentionally through behavioral profiling and role clarity.
Complementary strengths and eight-year trust beat shared DNA or similar backgrounds.
Co-CEO structure requires continuous communication and ego restraint, not just initial compatibility.
Marcus Wallenberg Jr: Building a Swedish industrial dynasty over decades
Founders
January 27, 2025
Case studies
10
Long-term planning
8
Talent management
7
Never selling a company — even bad ones — beats cutting losses.
MW ran 113 boards by making ownership mean daily presence.
Technology investment doubled bank productivity with 30% more staff.