26 May 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, marketing, and leadership, with new digests from TK Kader, The Daily Stoic, and KeyPersonOfInfluence. Highlights include Break revenue targets into customer and opportunity counts first. Stoicism was founded in a shipwreck — and thrives in business disaster.
Showing 51 digests for 26 May 2025.
Sales systems & CRM
YouTube
Go-to-market planning: a three-step process for SaaS growth
TK Kader
June 1, 2025
Sales systems & CRM
8
Funnels
6
Long-term planning
5
Break revenue targets into customer and opportunity counts first.
Data from loss codes and lead sources should drive every tactic.
Stop doing what isn't working before adding anything new.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic tools for navigating uncertainty and unpredictable change
The Daily Stoic
June 1, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Stoicism was founded in a shipwreck — and thrives in business disaster.
Waiting for the right moment is the one thing all fools share.
Adversity reveals your capacity; flexibility around core values is survival.
Reposition Around Intellectual Property and Ideal Customers to Scale Globally
KeyPersonOfInfluence
June 1, 2025
Niche selection
9
Branding
8
Public speaking
5
Replace geography-plus-product positioning with IP-plus-ideal-customer-persona.
Your intellectual property is unique, experience-derived frameworks no one else can replicate.
Personal brands grow 20x faster than business brands; use yours to scale awareness.
Iteration & feedback loops
Podcast
How Uber's CPO uses dogfooding and rapid shipping to build better products
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 1, 2025
Iteration & feedback loops
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Management
6
700+ personal drives revealed what office design never could
Cycle time between insight and shipped code is the real enemy
Great PMs are built by thousands of micro-decisions, not big ideas
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
Reid Hoffman on AI's environmental risks and rewards
Masters of Scale
May 31, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
AI tools & automation
6
Long-term planning
5
AI data centers are funding the green energy industry's path to scale.
Grid optimisation alone could cut household energy consumption by 30%.
Blocking nuclear energy directly worsened climate outcomes — history matters.
How CEOs and COOs can work together without getting in each other's way
Cameron Herold
May 31, 2025
Management
9
Delegation
8
Conflict resolution
6
Why CEOs must stop doing the COO's job to unlock their hire
Seagull management quietly destroys a COO's authority and team trust
Most COOs want contribution and autonomy, not the CEO spotlight
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Nine AI tools powering a real content and business operation in 2025
Silicon Valley Girl
May 31, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
7
Content marketing
6
One source video becomes 10+ pieces of content across every platform
Voice cloning and lip sync cut localisation costs from hundreds to near zero
Hiring, contracts, and sales calls now handled mostly by AI agents
Founder interviews
YouTube
How John Rush built a $3M ARR portfolio of 26 bootstrapped apps
Starter Story
May 31, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Bootstrapping
7
SEO
6
Sell manually before building — five pre-sales trigger the MVP
Free traffic tools funnel users into paid products across the portfolio
Building in public flipped failure rate from 90% to 10%
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Six steps to vocational confidence during economic uncertainty
Dr. Grace Lee
May 31, 2025
Resilience & grit
10
Identity & self-belief
8
Cash flow management
5
Why 'playing small' in a downturn compounds your financial damage
Money is a byproduct of value created, not a goal to chase
Work-life balance is a myth — seasons of focus beat equal splits
Charisma, warmth, and social strategy for introverts
The Daily Stoic
May 31, 2025
Public speaking
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Relationships & family
5
Fake warmth actively repels — authenticity is chemically contagious
How Truman won votes by ditching the stage for a one-on-one room
Say no without excuses: gratitude, clean end, no loops
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How to grow a copywriting career to six figures and beyond
Matthew Volkwyn
May 30, 2025
Prospecting & outreach
9
Pricing psychology
6
Big clients pay more, refer more, and teach you faster
Copywriters plateau at 10k by pivoting too early — don't
Undocumented wins are wasted leverage for your next client
Objection handling
YouTube
A 7-step framework for selling without pressure or gimmicks
Neil Patel
May 30, 2025
Objection handling
9
Prospecting & outreach
8
Closing techniques
7
Trust and evidence beat pressure tactics every time
Buyers need 11+ interactions before buying — most salespeople quit too soon
Lost deals are data: blunt feedback iterates your win rate
Moncler: how a mountain brand became a luxury powerhouse
Business Breakdowns
May 30, 2025
Case studies
9
Business models
7
Branding
6
A $1M acquisition turned into a €3.1B brand at 30% margins.
Genius: 80+ designer collabs keep the brand perpetually fresh.
Stone Island is Ruffini's second-act playbook — same DTC expansion strategy.
Deep work & focus
YouTube
10 Productivity Hacks to Engineer Deep Focus Without Willpower
Dan Martell
May 30, 2025
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
8
Processes & SOPs
5
Focus is a filter — remove distractions, don't add discipline.
Start hardest tasks first; compress timelines to force output.
Physical energy resets and weekly design unlock consistent flow.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Why AI hallucinations are a feature of helpfulness, not a bug
EO
May 30, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
AI tools & automation
6
AI's helpfulness drive is the exact mechanism that produces hallucinations
Industry benchmarks and safety evals are largely unscientific constructs
Treat every AI output like unverified Wikipedia — red-team your own prompts