17 March 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, founder stories, and strategy, with new digests from Founders, TK Kader, and KeyPersonOfInfluence. Highlights include How Ludwig financed entire fleets using other people's money Qualify before demoing — tire kickers waste more time than lost deals
Showing 48 digests for 17 March 2025.
Mastering successful virtual communication with the PING framework
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
March 20, 2025
Communication
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Productivity & habits
5
Four-part framework for remote communication: perspective, initiative, nonverbal cues, goals.
Small technical differences in channels (lag, richness) create meaningful behavioral shifts.
Text-based brainstorming outperforms in-person by reducing judgment and idea anchoring.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Discipline starts with commitment, not willpower
Brendon Burchard
March 20, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
No commitment means nothing to be accountable to
Impulse, intention, and social obligation compete for your behaviour
Speed of recalibration — not perfection — is the real measure of accountability
Prompt engineering
YouTube
Prompt engineering best practices are becoming obsolete
Dylan Davis
March 20, 2025
Prompt engineering
10
AI tools & automation
7
Reasoning models make chain-of-thought prompting redundant by default.
Agentic tools generate their own steps, making explicit step prompts useless.
Describe what you want — AI knows how to get there better than you do.
How Death & Co built a visionary-integrator partnership over 20 years
EOS Worldwide
March 20, 2025
Case studies
10
Business operating systems
7
Management
5
Why doing everything together kept two founders from their best work
EOS as an anchor when COVID forced monthly reinvention of the business
IQ doesn't trump EQ — the integrator's single most important lesson
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
HRAs and HSAs: how they work and when to use both
HR Party of One
March 20, 2025
Compliance & regulation
9
Accounting basics
7
HSAs carry a triple tax advantage HRAs can't match
Standard HRAs can disqualify employees from contributing to an HSA
LP HRAs and HSAs can pair together without conflicting coverage
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Proving yourself worthy of privilege: stoic Q&A from Rotterdam
The Daily Stoic
March 20, 2025
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Productivity & habits
6
Stoics engage by default — silence on important issues is cowardice
Your body lies about its limits; trust the process over the feeling
Stillness is a daily discipline, not a mental state you achieve
TaskRabbit founder Leah Solivan advises three app-based founders
How I Built This with Guy Raz
March 20, 2025
Niche selection
9
Product-market fit
8
Case studies
8
Why a crowded app store demands a wedge, not more marketing
Selling a 'vitamin' app when couples only seek help in crisis
The 1,000 early adopters rule that creates real momentum
Closing million-dollar deals: the enterprise sales playbook
The Science of Scaling
March 20, 2025
Enterprise sales
10
Objection handling
6
Enterprise deals require a full rebuild of every sales-process stage.
Champion quality — not price or product — determines who wins.
MEDIC replaces BANT for inspecting complex, multi-stakeholder opportunities.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Building unshakeable confidence: lessons from West Point and the Olympics
Bill Gallagher
March 19, 2025
Identity & self-belief
10
Resilience & grit
7
Confidence is a trainable skill, not a fixed personality trait.
Journaling small daily wins rewired a CEO's entire outlook on work.
Eli Manning went from NFL question mark to Super Bowl MVP in 11 months.
Watsco: how North America's largest HVAC distributor built a durable compounding business
Business Breakdowns
March 19, 2025
Case studies
9
Business models
8
Unit economics
6
20% annualised returns over 30 years from a distributor, not a tech firm
Cliff-vesting at retirement: only 8% of equity awards ever forfeited
Why controlling manufacturer consent is Watsco's hidden moat
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Building competitive autonomous driving AI without a massive fleet
EO
March 19, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
Competitive analysis
7
B2B sales
6
AI simulation lets automakers skip Tesla's fleet-size advantage entirely
Two years of pure R&D before any product — a deliberate all-or-nothing bet
Show customers velocity, not just position, to win production contracts
StoryBrand AI generates ready-to-use brand messaging sound bites
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
March 19, 2025
Copywriting
9
Branding
7
AI tools & automation
6
AI generates seven ready-to-use sound bites from your brand story
Each sound bite answers one specific question about your customer's journey
Deploy all seven across website, emails, and presentations consistently
Productivity & habits
Podcast
A simple journaling system for people who keep quitting
How I Work
March 19, 2025
Productivity & habits
10
Goal setting
6
Three morning questions that build presence, clarity, and daily focus
Six-week sprint cycles prevent daily work collapsing into reactive to-dos
Two words in tension beat a single word of the year every time
Founder interviews
Podcast
Katalin Karikó on resilience, mRNA, and stoic philosophy
The Daily Stoic
March 19, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
7
40 years ignored — then her research saved millions of lives
Love the process, not the prize: the only sustainable motivation
Stoicism as daily practice: focus only on what you can control
AI tools & automation
YouTube
AI agents can replace a full team and 3x your growth speed
Neil Patel
March 18, 2025
AI tools & automation
10
Automation & tools
7
Delegation
6
AI agents automate end-to-end workflows, not just single tasks.
NP Digital's M&A outreach runs 3x faster with zero research headcount.
Agents handle routine support tickets; humans focus on complex cases.