10 March 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, leadership, and marketing, with new digests from TK Kader, The Daily Stoic, and KeyPersonOfInfluence. Highlights include 70–80% gross margin is non-negotiable regardless of how you're funded Every obstacle is an opportunity to practice excellence.
Showing 46 digests for 10 March 2025.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Life lessons from your 20s: what to prioritise before 30
Silicon Valley Girl
March 13, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Productivity & habits
8
Resilience & grit
6
Your 20s are the lowest-cost window to fail and learn fast.
Start investing $20 now — the habit matters more than the amount.
Early health checks catch fertility and hormonal issues before time runs out.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
How to prevent context drift when AI coding with Cursor
Dylan Davis
March 13, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Long Cursor sessions cause models to drift from your codebase reality.
Summarise stuck bugs into a fresh composer session to reset context.
Three layered documents — spec, blueprint, to-do — keep AI on track.
Shutting down Hello Query: a founder's honest account
Startups For the Rest of Us
March 13, 2025
Post-mortems
10
Prospecting & outreach
6
Growth hacking
5
Why 'nerd famous' audiences give founders dangerously false buying signals
Co-founder departure forced a full restart, costing years of progress
Knowing when to quit: exhaustion plus stalled traction plus opportunity cost
Business operating systems
YouTube
Acting from first principles to succeed in any environment
EOS Worldwide
March 13, 2025
Business operating systems
10
Management
6
Goal setting
5
Success traps are harder to escape than failure traps
True partnerships need no meetings, no lawyers, no referral fees
Pressure reveals complexity — the fix is protecting time for the future
Five common payroll errors and how HR teams can prevent them
HR Party of One
March 13, 2025
Processes & SOPs
9
Compliance & regulation
8
Misclassifying workers under FLSA triggers costly back pay and lawsuits.
Automating calculations and auditing classifications removes most payroll risk.
Tax compliance failures stem from outdated rates and misunderstood W-4 rules.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Rent the Runway's Jen Hyman advises founders on scaling and fundraising
How I Built This with Guy Raz
March 13, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Growth hacking
6
Pricing strategy
5
Low ego is a founder's single biggest competitive advantage
Beauty brands die on acquisition costs — repeat revenue is everything
50% labor cost signals you need new products, not better pricing
Why small businesses can't run without the owner — and how to fix it
Layla at ProcessDriven
March 13, 2025
Processes & SOPs
10
Delegation
8
Switching tools never fixes communication — changing habits does.
A shared task list is the only cure for vacation dread.
Recurring tasks let you micromanage once, then step away permanently.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic Q&A: decluttering life and sustaining daily practice
The Daily Stoic
March 13, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
7
Mental health & wellbeing
5
Ruthless elimination — not reduction — is the only fix for mental overload.
Rigid routines create fragility; flexible practices survive any disruption.
Stoic pessimism is optimism in disguise — it assumes you can handle anything.
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Figma was built: design, AI, and the long path to product-market fit
Y Combinator
March 13, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Product-market fit
7
AI strategy & adoption
5
AI lowers the design floor but can't yet produce well-designed output.
Figma's multiplayer bet was initially rejected — then became its defining feature.
More software being built makes designers more critical, not less.
Bolt: how seven years of browser OS technology unlocked $40M ARR in five months
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
March 13, 2025
Case studies
9
Product-market fit
8
AI tools & automation
6
Seven years building a browser-native OS made an overnight AI success possible
Running compute on user devices — not cloud VMs — removes the scaling ceiling
60–70% of users are non-developers; PM skills are now the key coding advantage
Two fundamentals that determine whether a business can scale
Bill Gallagher
March 12, 2025
Niche selection
9
Competitive analysis
7
A 98-page strategy killed a billion-dollar company by spreading it across four fronts
One customer type, one core product — even at multi-billion dollar scale
Differentiation is best found through AI, new hires, and competitors' customers
Deep work & focus
YouTube
Shifting from hard work to strategic thinking as a leader
Dr. Grace Lee
March 12, 2025
Deep work & focus
9
Management
6
Hard work alone won't advance your career — thinking will.
Tactics, strategies, and principles form a hierarchy of thought.
Reverse-engineer your wins to extract transferable principles.
How marketing consultants can thrive by becoming AI-era strategists
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
March 12, 2025
Business models
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Branding
6
AI takes execution — the strategist who directs it earns more
Fractional CMO positioning unlocks $2,500–$7,500/month retainers
Human insight catches what AI misses: the real villain customers feel
How to grow a local service business using organic social media
GaryVee
March 12, 2025
Social media
10
Growth hacking
8
Resilience & grit
6
Post organic content daily — one video can reach buyers with zero followers
Brand creates pricing power; SEO is a toll booth AI will soon dismantle
Free organic distribution is a temporary window that won't last
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Derren Brown on Stoicism, Marcus Aurelius, and the art of living well
The Daily Stoic
March 12, 2025
Why Stoicism as a toolkit beats going all-in like a religion
Meditations works because Marcus never intended anyone to read it
Gathering resources your whole life instead of actually living