What's New

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

Founder interviews

Podcast

How Niklas Zennström built Kazaa and Skype from peer-to-peer technology

How I Built This with Guy Raz March 17, 2025

Founder interviews 10

Pivoting 7

Fundraising & VC 6

The same peer-to-peer insight powered both free music and free calls
Skype sold to Microsoft for $8.5 billion, two years after near-bankruptcy
Evading RIAA lawsuits across two continents shaped every business decision

AI tools & automation

Podcast

Build an AI advisory board using the @ trick in ChatGPT

How I Work March 17, 2025

AI tools & automation 9

Automation & tools 6

Use @ in ChatGPT Plus to summon expert personas mid-conversation
New GPTs must be used once before they appear in the @ pop-up
Free-tier users can replicate this with named threads and copy-paste

Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Stoic beauty: your choices define you, not your appearance

The Daily Stoic March 17, 2025

Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 5

You are not your looks — you are your capacity for choosing well
Spring exposes winter's accumulated bad habits; will you change them?
Character is controllable; what others think of you is not

What's New

17 March 2025

How Niklas Zennström built Kazaa and Skype from peer-to-peer technology

Build an AI advisory board using the @ trick in ChatGPT

Stoic beauty: your choices define you, not your appearance

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