What's New

See the latest Trusted Library digests, grouped by the week they were added.

What's New

See the latest Trusted Library digests, grouped by the week they were added.

5 May 2025

This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Rob Walling, Ryan Deiss, and TK Kader. Highlights include Ad-supported and GMV models need scale bootstrappers can't reach. You trained your team to interrupt you — here's how to stop.

Showing 50 digests for 5 May 2025.

Business operating systems

YouTube

Five biomimicry principles for scaling companies with less drama

Scaling Up with Verne Harnish May 5, 2025


Business operating systems 9
Management 7
  • A $500k prize unlocked $6 billion in gold by crowdsourcing geologists
  • Superorganisms choose leaders who share knowledge, not hoard it
  • Resilience is the wrong goal — antifragile organisations get stronger from stress

Deep work & focus

Podcast

Algorithmic vs. non-algorithmic internet: how to use the web well

Deep Questions with Cal Newport May 5, 2025


Deep work & focus 9
Productivity & habits 7
Processes & SOPs 5
  • Attention platforms are engagement mills, not the connection internet promised
  • Newsletters, forums, and podcasts deliver the good internet without addiction
  • Working backwards from your ideal lifestyle beats following your passion

Branding

YouTube

How Southwest Airlines failed to manage a brand-defining policy reversal

StoryBrand With Donald Miller May 5, 2025


Branding 10
Communication 8
Competitive analysis 6
  • Letting others define your narrative costs more than the policy change itself
  • Humor kills upmarket messaging — drama and honesty do the work
  • Customers are loyal to opportunity, not brands; stop being a survival asset and they leave

Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Treating yourself as a project: a Stoic guide to self-investment

The Daily Stoic May 5, 2025


Identity & self-belief 8
Resilience & grit 6
  • Silence when others face injustice is a failure of courage
  • Pros treat personal development as a cost of doing business
  • After easy wins, serious growth demands deliberate investment

Case studies

Podcast

How Brad Baxter built Litter-Robot into a $300M pet tech brand

How I Built This with Guy Raz May 5, 2025


Case studies 10
Bootstrapping 7
Product-market fit 5
  • A rotating globe sifts waste — no raking, no broken clumps
  • Twenty years of self-funding through a parallel consulting business
  • One influencer campaign doubled sales in a single year

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