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.
Building a character brand for the long game: the VeeFriends strategy
GaryVee
May 28, 2025
Branding
8
Social media
7
Resilience & grit
6
Why most brands fail parents — and how VeeFriends fixes that
Combining mass distribution with relentless one-on-one depth beats AI automation
Signed up for a 50-year journey: milestones are not arrival points
Overcoming time anxiety: strategies for guilt, email, and priorities
How I Work
May 28, 2025
Time management
9
Productivity & habits
8
Deciding what is 'enough' beats trying to optimise everything.
Email bankruptcy: archive all unanswered messages every January.
Ask 'what matters right now?' to cut through priority paralysis.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How to build charisma: the science of warmth, cues, and connection
The Daily Stoic
May 28, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Communication
6
Warmth beats competence — and likeability is built by liking others first.
Your social anxiety is contagious; replace fear with a conversational blueprint.
Trying to seem impressive actively makes you less impressive.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How OLIPOP's founder is building a healthier soda empire
Masters of Scale
May 27, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Influencer & partnerships
6
Clinical trials back OLIPOP's health claims — not just trend marketing.
PepsiCo and Coke entering your category is validation, not a death threat.
The hardest CEO transition is emotional, not strategic.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Seven Profitable AI Business Ideas You Can Launch in 2025
Neil Patel
May 27, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Business models
7
SEO
5
Human-assisted content beats pure AI content by 5.4x in traffic.
Chatbot oversight and AI agent management are high-margin retainer businesses.
The real opportunity: deploying AI for businesses that can't do it themselves.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Own your career development before your company does
Cameron Herold
May 27, 2025
Identity & self-belief
8
Productivity & habits
7
Self-funding your own coaching signals worth — employers reimburse it later
Most executives don't know what leadership skills they're missing
Teaching others after learning is what makes skills actually stick
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
Four skills that guarantee your first million dollars
Dan Martell
May 27, 2025
Prospecting & outreach
8
Content marketing
7
Public speaking
6
A business starts the moment a stranger buys — not before
Most salespeople lose by never asking for the order
Ten years of daily content creation virtually guarantees seven figures
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Claude 4 prompting techniques for advanced reasoning models
Dylan Davis
May 27, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
6
Your prompt's style directly shapes how Claude 4 responds.
State what you want — negation prompts are now obsolete.
Parallel tool calling lets Claude synthesise multiple results at once.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How bootstrapping a home inspection SaaS led to a $90M exit
Startups For the Rest of Us
May 27, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Bootstrapping
7
Exit strategy
6
Payments revenue — not subscriptions — became the biggest valuation driver.
A day-before-close re-trade tanked one deal; founders walked even after it was reversed.
MicroConf men's room encounter led directly to the $90M Radian Capital deal.
How Slate's $20K electric truck cut through a crowded market
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
May 27, 2025
Copywriting
9
Branding
7
Funnels
6
One controlling idea — cheap, fun, yours — drove millions of views
Leaving out range and specs was a deliberate, winning choice
If competitors aren't saying it, you can own it by saying it first
How to build a knowledge business from zero with no audience or ads
Sunny Lenarduzzi
May 27, 2025
Business models
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Content marketing
5
Sell a live prototype first — get paid before building your course
15 followers was enough to generate $225,000 with the right audience
Your methodology becomes the asset, not your time
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
AI won't take your job — but it will take the jobs of people who won't use it
GaryVee
May 27, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
10
Resilience & grit
6
Architects keep their jobs; AI replaces the masons and executors
A smaller AI-augmented team earns more than a 50-person one
One hour a day in ChatGPT is the minimum viable starting point
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Books and the view from above: two Stoic tools for perspective
The Daily Stoic
May 27, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Mental health & wellbeing
5
Ancient books are time travel — wisdom preserved across 2,000 years.
Zooming out shrinks every problem to its true, tiny scale.
Marcus Aurelius used cosmic perspective as a daily stress antidote.
Conflict resolution
Podcast
Predicting and preventing conflict at work and home
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
May 26, 2025
Conflict resolution
9
Identity & self-belief
5
Most conflict is predictable — and preventable before it escalates
Five conflict styles require completely different de-escalation techniques
Diagnosing conflict type (task vs. process vs. relational) changes everything
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How to Build Premium Copywriting Retainers Through Relationships and Research
Matthew Volkwyn
May 26, 2025
Prospecting & outreach
9
Copywriting
7
Retention & loyalty
7
Solve a recurring client problem and recurring pay follows automatically.
Listening to sales calls reveals exact market vocabulary that transforms copy.
Saying no to misaligned clients creates capacity for better, lasting ones.