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.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Nine Stoic keys to building lasting character
The Daily Stoic
May 30, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Motivation
6
Only ruined character is unrecoverable — everything else you can come back from
Stoic classics reward rereading at every age; treat them as daily practice
Success and failure say nothing about you — only your character does
Prompt engineering
YouTube
State-of-the-art prompting and evals for AI agents
Y Combinator
May 30, 2025
Prompt engineering
10
AI strategy & adoption
7
B2B sales
5
Your evals are the crown jewels — not your prompts.
Meta-prompting lets one prompt generate better versions of itself.
Forward-deployed engineers win enterprise deals by demoing, not selling.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Storytelling as the core currency of business and film
Masters of Scale
May 29, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Identity & self-belief
6
Business models
5
Storytelling ability is the real currency in every industry role.
How a cash-crisis hologram startup became a 700-acre filmmaker city.
Undercharge to win early, then iterate pricing until clients push back.
Mental health & wellbeing
YouTube
AI, robots, and human connection: insights from Lex Fridman
Andrew Huberman
May 29, 2025
Mental health & wellbeing
8
Resilience & grit
6
Shared time — not intelligence — is what makes robots feel real
Self-supervised learning may give machines human-like common sense
Grief for a dog reveals how deep non-human bonds can run
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Breaking the self-criticism loop that stalls your momentum
Brendon Burchard
May 29, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
8
Attaching problems to your identity triggers shame, punishment, and procrastination.
Catching and flipping negative self-talk is the single lever that changes momentum.
Wins must be consciously integrated or the strength from them never compounds.
How CEOs gather honest employee intel for continuous improvement
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
May 29, 2025
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Frontline employees hold the truth your data will never show
Six proven methods CEOs use to extract weekly honest feedback
1% weekly improvement compounds — acting on intel is the edge
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Build an MCP server in 20 minutes using only AI
Dylan Davis
May 29, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
No-code & low-code
8
Automation & tools
5
A reverse AI interview generates the system prompt that drives everything.
Gemini 2.5 Pro's large output window produces the best standalone blueprints.
Claude Sonnet 4 beats GPT-4.1 for error-free prompt-by-prompt implementation.
Ambition as a lifelong capability, not a destination
EOS Worldwide
May 29, 2025
Goal setting
9
Business operating systems
8
Delegation
7
Ambition is a muscle — exercise it and it grows stronger over time.
Vision, skills, and impact are the three measurable engines of sustained ambition.
Agency matters more than happiness — owning your situation regardless of circumstance.
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
How to avoid ACA sledgehammer and tack hammer penalties
HR Party of One
May 29, 2025
Compliance & regulation
9
Processes & SOPs
5
Two separate IRS penalties target employers who skip or underprovide health coverage
Tack hammer fines apply per employee receiving marketplace credits, not all staff
Six concrete steps — from ALE status to accurate 1095-C filing — prevent both penalties
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Power reveals character, not greatness
The Daily Stoic
May 29, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Management
7
Having power exposes who you are, not who you want to be.
No one is fit to rule who is not first master of themselves.
Success pulls you from the work that made success worth having.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How I Built This Advice Line: Steve Holmes on tariffs, branding, and building resilience
How I Built This with Guy Raz
May 29, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Cash flow management
7
Niche selection
6
Stockpiling inventory pre-tariff saved Holmes's business from catastrophe.
Viral moments like Oprah produce joy, not durable revenue.
Honesty with yourself — not hustle — is the real founder superpower.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Breaking the toxic urgency cycle with a four-step daily reset
Layla at ProcessDriven
May 29, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
7
Most reactive work cultures are self-inflicted, not inevitable.
One committed task per day rebuilds the follow-through muscle.
Celebrating small wins rewires you away from crisis-only focus.
How to lead AI development inside large corporations
Lean Startup Co.
May 29, 2025
Management
9
Business operating systems
8
AI strategy & adoption
7
AI is a paradigm shift from deterministic to probabilistic programming
Small constrained bets outperform big budgets in uncertain territory
Act as VC and mayor: align on method, then release teams to execute
How a one-person survival blog beats Amazon and Reddit on Google
Ahrefs
May 28, 2025
SEO
10
Growth hacking
8
Unit economics
6
One person outranks Amazon and Reddit with genuine field-tested gear reviews
Traffic explodes during crises — ranking before the wave is the entire strategy
Display ads and negotiated affiliate rates could easily double existing revenue
AI tools & automation
YouTube
How to launch a branded merch store in minutes using AI tools
Silicon Valley Girl
May 28, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
5
AI generates a complete Shopify storefront in under one minute
Physical products — not digital — can be listed as shoppable YouTube videos
Full store with premium theme, policies, and catalog costs $1/month via Shopify