How to build a self-funded team bonus plan in five steps

Ryan Deiss May 4, 2025

• Bonuses paid from accounting profit can leave you personally funding payroll
• Set a profit trigger that covers taxes, debt, and owner distributions first
• Hybrid payout (60% salary-based, 40% equal) rewards contribution and team cohesion

Curiosity, not coding: what AI cannot replace in human thinking

EO May 4, 2025

• AI can execute — but you must still decide what to ask it
• Neural operators cut weather prediction from supercomputer to gaming PC
• Tracking gaps in your knowledge beats chasing skills AI will replace

How to build a scalable SaaS go-to-market strategy

TK Kader May 4, 2025

• Strategy is just two choices: ICP and messaging — everything else is execution.
• A generic ICP is equivalent to selling to everyone — pick one segment.
• At the scaling stage, doing fewer things well beats doing everything badly.

Seven beliefs that make entrepreneurs high agency

KeyPersonOfInfluence May 4, 2025

• Why agency beats IQ in a world where AI has all the answers
• No resources? Borrow them — someone already has the aircraft carrier
• Conflict, speed, and pitching without permission are non-negotiable habits

Moral courage is a habit, not a moment

The Daily Stoic May 4, 2025

• Refusing to act is still a choice — complicity compounds quietly.
• Each act of courage makes the next one measurably easier.
• Ordinary incentives — money, approval — are more corrosive than threats.

How Cognition builds Devin using Devin, and what it means for engineers

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth May 4, 2025

• Devin already writes 25% of Cognition's PRs — targeting 50%+ by year-end
• Engineers shift from bricklayer to architect: less boilerplate, more system design
• AI will create more programmers, not fewer, via Jevons Paradox

How a COO scaled 1-800-GOT-JUNK from $2M to $106M

Cameron Herold May 3, 2025

• The COO role is custom-fitted to the CEO's weaknesses, not a generic position.
• A shared 'globally admired brand' vision turned a junk company into a wow machine.
• CEO-COO misalignment is felt instantly by the entire leadership team.

Why You Make Less Than Your Colleague

Dr. Grace Lee May 3, 2025

How Blockdaemon became a $3.3B blockchain infrastructure business

EO May 3, 2025

• Richter predicted 100,000 institutional nodes in 2017 — people laughed.
• Surviving two crypto winters meant subsidising payroll and cutting the team.
• Getting JP Morgan on the board — not just as a customer — unlocked trust.

Stoic wealth: redefining what it means to be truly rich

The Daily Stoic May 3, 2025

• Why having more money can make you feel poorer than ever
• The arrival fallacy: why every milestone instantly becomes the baseline
• Resilience and saying no are more valuable than financial wealth

The niche-result-offer formula every copywriter needs

Matthew Volkwyn May 2, 2025

• A niche is people who share a problem, not a demographic.
• Every marketing message needs niche, result, and offer — always.
• Product-market fit applied to copy can scale clients to millions.

Nine money habits keeping you broke — and how to fix them

Dan Martell May 2, 2025

• Only take advice from people who already have what you want
• Delayed gratification beats compound interest — tie purchases to goals
• You cannot save your way to wealth; playing offense is the only path

From India to $500M: How Gaurav Misra built Captions

EO May 2, 2025

• A paywall added on a whim — not deleted — built a $500M company
• Paid-from-day-one filters users and produces the feedback that matters
• One working feature beats three almost-working features every time

AI, brand-building, and pricing: lessons from a GaryVee Q&A

GaryVee May 2, 2025

• ChatGPT may own the customer transaction instead of sending referrals
• Keep raising your price until the market says no — repeatedly
• Candor was GaryVee's blind spot for 20 years; coaches fix that

Twelve Stoic choices to live better, starting today

The Daily Stoic May 2, 2025

• Procrastination assumes future time you're not guaranteed to have
• Routine beats motivation — systems carry you when willpower fails
• Memento Mori isn't morbid; it's the antidote to wasted days