What's New

This week's additions focus on mindset, leadership, and strategy, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Dr. Grace Lee, and Dylan Davis. Highlights include NLX is the new UX — natural language interfaces must be deliberately designed. Job security is uncontrollable; vocational confidence is a learnable skill set.

Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic wisdom on nature, stillness, and responding with kindness

The Daily Stoic May 12, 2025

Resilience & grit 9

Mental health & wellbeing 6

Marcus Aurelius used nature as a deliberate practice to find calm.
Kindness under attack is the hardest discipline — and the most powerful.
MLK's non-violence worked because it was the only strategy that could win.

Case studies

Podcast

How Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie built Substack into a writer-owned media platform

How I Built This with Guy Raz May 12, 2025

Case studies 10

Business models 7

Fundraising & VC 5

Making readers the customers — not advertisers — changes everything
Elon Musk tried to buy Substack, then tried to kill it
One writer's six-figure launch day validated the whole model instantly

Goal setting

Podcast

Pre-mortem and pre-victorum: plan goals by imagining both outcomes

How I Work May 12, 2025

Goal setting 9

Long-term planning 6

Writing a future failure story surfaces blockers goal-setting misses
Stanford found nurse shortages, not researcher gaps, blocked breakthroughs
Pairing failure and success narratives reveals what actually drives results

What's New

12 May 2025

Stoic wisdom on nature, stillness, and responding with kindness

How Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie built Substack into a writer-owned media platform

Pre-mortem and pre-victorum: plan goals by imagining both outcomes

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