24 February 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and marketing, with new digests from Rob Walling, Ryan Deiss, and EO. Highlights include Why raising too much VC money can destroy a viable startup One question reveals what customers want to buy from you already.
Showing 54 digests for 24 February 2025.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Designing your workspace for focus: sensory factors that drive productivity
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
February 24, 2025
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
6
Your air, sound, and temperature are quietly throttling your output.
Coffee shops run at highway decibel levels — and they're not designed for work.
A 20-minute rest can match three hours of deep sleep if done right.
Copywriting masterclass: principles from a billion-dollar practitioner
Matthew Volkwyn
February 24, 2025
Copywriting
10
Pricing psychology
6
Pricing strategy
5
Teaching a salesperson to write beats teaching a writer to sell.
Three words — this, it's, that — control psychological distance in copy.
Only learn from copywriters who've generated $10M+ in client sales.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
When and why to hire a COO: a practical guide for CEOs
Cameron Herold
February 24, 2025
Hiring & recruitment
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Long-term planning
5
Self-knowledge about energy-draining tasks drives the right COO hire.
The CEO's real job is projecting energy — not running operations.
A good COO is also a trusted partner in an inherently lonely role.
Long-term planning
YouTube
Navigating survival mode: how to lead growth through uncertainty
Coaching for Leaders
February 24, 2025
Long-term planning
9
Management
7
Uncertainty is a growth opportunity — organisations that learn faster grow faster
Replace prediction with belief-testing: trends you see, beliefs you act on
Aligned speed — not planning discipline — is the real competitive advantage
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Drowning, treading, or swimming: a metaphor for managing overload
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
February 24, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Good productivity systems keep you afloat — but not moving forward.
Saying no and having systems are not alternatives; both are required.
Pseudo-productivity kills team output; here's how to fix it.
How Amazon built dominance through customer obsession and relentless ease
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
February 24, 2025
Business models
9
Customer experience
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Buying on Amazon is now faster than writing it on your to-do list.
Every Amazon innovation traces back to one rule: remove friction.
Customer obsession beats competitor obsession — even Bezos says so.
How Amazon built an unstoppable business through customer obsession
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
February 24, 2025
Vision & mission
10
Customer experience
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Customer obsession, not competitor obsession, drives Amazon's compounding advantages.
Prime and AWS are the only two grand slams Bezos himself acknowledges.
Two-pizza teams keep a giant company moving at startup speed.
How Barry Turner built Lenny & Larry's into a protein snack brand
How I Built This with Guy Raz
February 24, 2025
Case studies
10
Bootstrapping
8
Iteration & feedback loops
6
From $13.20 first invoice to $94M revenue with no outside funding
Why selling too early cost him six years and nearly killed the brand
The 'better bad' insight: most consumers won't go extreme, just slightly better
Mental health & wellbeing
Podcast
How Qigong helped Lisa Leong reconnect mind, body and joy
How I Work
February 24, 2025
Mental health & wellbeing
7
When biohacking fails, movement-based meditation can break the cycle
Lisa flew to the US to learn Qigong from a master — it worked
A single mindful moment with a bee signalled her joy had returned