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
Podcast
Overcoming people-pleasing to lead with clarity and respect
How I Work
March 12, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
Communication
5
Needing to be liked as CEO makes honest feedback impossible
Vague feedback wrapped in reassurance is the real unkindness
The self-critical 'whip' feels like drive — but isn't
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How elite copywriters win clients by demonstrating skill, not selling themselves
Matthew Volkwyn
March 11, 2025
Prospecting & outreach
9
Content marketing
7
Iteration & feedback loops
6
Lead with specific insights, not pitches — pre-sell clients before any call.
Email is the hardest copy format; VSLs and ads are more formulaic and learnable.
Audience and offer (80%) outweigh copy (20%) — find clients already running ads.
Seven principles to achieve your goals this year
Dan Martell
March 11, 2025
Goal setting
9
Productivity & habits
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Goals without daily standards have no blueprint for success.
Your identity must change before your results ever will.
Public commitments create accountability no willpower hack can match.
How Jordan Gal pivoted to an AI phone answering service with hockey stick growth
Startups For the Rest of Us
March 11, 2025
Case studies
10
Pivoting
9
Product-market fit
8
Replacing voicemail — not humans — slashes the bar to win
Usage-based trials eliminate low-activation churn at the source
Accordion feature strategy: launch broad, cut fast, reintroduce as upsells
Customer discovery
YouTube
How to validate and pre-sell an online course before building it
Sunny Lenarduzzi
March 11, 2025
Customer discovery
10
MVP & prototyping
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Sell your course before building it — 50 conversations, 32 paying clients.
Transformation outsells information every time, even a bestselling book.
A bare-bones prototype beats a polished course that nobody asked for.
Social media beats SEO: post daily or stay invisible
GaryVee
March 11, 2025
Social media
9
Growth hacking
7
Post daily on every platform — nobody visits websites anymore
Boost organic winners with small local ad spend to drive real sales
"Maybe" beats yes or no as a career decision filter
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic habits for growth: embrace discomfort and strategic empathy
The Daily Stoic
March 11, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Relationships & family
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Comfort makes you lazy and fragile — Sherman and the Stoics knew it
Kennedy avoided nuclear war by modelling Khrushchev's position, not just his own
Suspecting your own reactions first defuses conflict before it starts
How to listen deeply and build real connection
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
March 10, 2025
Communication
9
Deep work & focus
6
Most people are rehearsing replies, not actually listening
Three mindset qualities — humility, curiosity, empathy — transform conversations
Hidden needs drive every conversation; surface them without projecting
How COOs stay aligned, delegate well, and grow their organisations
Cameron Herold
March 10, 2025
Delegation
9
Outsourcing & delegation
7
Management
6
Present disagreements to be heard, not to win.
Set time and money ceilings on every delegation — or scope explodes.
A fully delegated plate creates space for higher-leverage, strategic work.
How appreciating dignity brings out the best in people
Coaching for Leaders
March 10, 2025
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
5
Dignity is a birthright — not earned through status or achievement.
Leaders who admit mistakes publicly restore empathy and trust.
Three connections — self, others, greater good — are the recipe for a fulfilled life.
Long-term planning
YouTube
The CEO's real job: finding the right next thing every 90 days
Ryan Deiss
March 10, 2025
Long-term planning
9
Management
6
A CEO's only daily job is finding the single right next thing
Regrets are more profitable than pride — they reveal what to fix
Rank 5–7 initiatives by impact; commit to number one, delegate the rest
Productivity & habits
Podcast
The minimally viable productivity system: three components everyone needs
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
March 10, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Time management
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Three components — task, workload, and time control — are all you need.
Workload management, not task lists, is the most neglected productivity lever.
AGI is a quality threshold; true autonomous AI risk requires four specific factors.
Why reality TV works and what brands can learn from it
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
March 10, 2025
Copywriting
9
Branding
7
Content marketing
6
Reality TV is story structure dressed up as unscripted footage.
Viewers watch for safe, vicarious drama — not actual reality.
Brands that lead with conflict and stakes out-earn those that don't.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Mark Lawrence built SpotHero into North America's largest digital parking platform
How I Built This with Guy Raz
March 10, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Pivoting
8
Business models
7
Staying in one city while rivals blitzscaled 50 was the winning move.
SpotHero's board voted to pivot to valet — Lawrence said no, and was right.
Covid wiped 98% of bookings; the company came back 3.5x larger.
AI tools & automation
Podcast
Using multiple AI models as a personal advisory board
How I Work
March 10, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Processes & SOPs
5
Different AI models return genuinely different perspectives, not just variations
Run complex problems through two models, then synthesise the best outputs
ChatGPT excels at analysis; Claude at writing; Gemini is rapidly closing the gap