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.

2 June 2025

This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and marketing, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Rob Walling, and Ryan Deiss. Highlights include Why Mercado Libre runs 18,000 engineers with almost no PMs Seven excluded ideas are a tiny fraction of all viable startup paths

Showing 45 digests for 2 June 2025.

Founder interviews

Podcast

How Mercado Libre scaled to 18,000 engineers, 30,000 deploys a day, and their own fleet of planes

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth June 8, 2025


Founder interviews 9
Culture building 7
AI strategy & adoption 6
  • Why Mercado Libre runs 18,000 engineers with almost no PMs
  • 30,000 daily production deploys — how trust replaces approval gates
  • Steve Jobs personally called this founder at 17 to pull his app

Business models

YouTube

Rob Walling responds to criticism of his startup ideas list

Rob Walling June 8, 2025


Business models 9
Communication 7
Customer experience 6
  • Seven excluded ideas are a tiny fraction of all viable startup paths
  • Founders who tried two-sided marketplaces almost always regret it
  • All startup advice is opinion — consider the speaker's goals and context

Cash flow management

YouTube

15 lessons for scaling a business from six to eight figures

Ryan Deiss June 8, 2025


Cash flow management 9
Delegation 8
Niche selection 6
  • Own your customer list — it's your real emergency fund.
  • Rule of 40: growth % plus profit % must reach 40.
  • Never quit on a bad day; abdication can trigger a death spiral.

Business models

YouTube

Five micro SaaS businesses you can buy and scale today

TK Kader June 8, 2025


Business models 9
Valuation 7
Product-market fit 6
  • Buying proven revenue beats years of building something nobody wants.
  • Five listed businesses from $15K to $4M, all profitable with zero marketing.
  • Existing listings signal what works — remix the idea even if you don't buy.

Productivity & habits

Podcast

One day can be a whole life: a Stoic evening review

The Daily Stoic June 8, 2025


Productivity & habits 7
Relationships & family 6
Resilience & grit 5
  • A chaotic day of sick kids still counts as a whole life
  • Rushing your child doesn't make them faster — only leaves bitterness
  • Seneca's evening review: close each day's books before sleep

Growth hacking

YouTube

How to generate better leads by knowing exactly who you're chasing

KeyPersonOfInfluence June 8, 2025


Growth hacking 9
Prospecting & outreach 8
Content marketing 7
  • Your ICP is your red car — define it or you'll see nothing.
  • Signature content plus three post types (pain, news, prize) fills your pipeline.
  • One-to-ones close 10k+ deals; group intros scale the 1k–10k tier.

AI tools & automation

YouTube

How Alex Finn built a $300K ARR app solo using AI coding tools

Starter Story June 7, 2025


AI tools & automation 9
Business models 8
Social media 7
  • Break AI prompts into micro-steps — smaller tasks mean fewer bugs.
  • Three years of audience-building drove $200K revenue in two hours.
  • Distribution, not product quality, is the only defensible moat now.

Identity & self-belief

YouTube

Seven CEO mindset principles for transformative personal growth

Dr. Grace Lee June 7, 2025


Identity & self-belief 9
Goal setting 7
  • Momentum has direction — being productive the wrong way still fails.
  • Your environment is more powerful than your willpower to succeed.
  • Serve first: rewards are a byproduct of value created for others.

B2B sales

YouTube

Increase Your Copywriting Income Beyond $10k? Watch This

Matthew Volkwyn June 6, 2025


B2B sales 9
Branding 7
Identity & self-belief 5

Growth hacking

YouTube

Six Digital Marketing Trends Every Marketer Must Adopt in 2025

Neil Patel June 6, 2025


Growth hacking 8
AI tools & automation 7
  • Brand search volume now outranks click traffic as the key marketing metric.
  • AI agents and social commerce are mandatory, not optional, in 2025.
  • 96% of global opportunity sits outside the US market.

Goal setting

YouTube

The 95-5 rule: focus on the one lever that moves everything

Dan Martell June 6, 2025


Goal setting 10
Delegation 8
Processes & SOPs 6
  • 95% of results come from just 5% of your efforts
  • Clarity of vision is the prerequisite for finding your 5%
  • Delegate, defer, or delete everything outside your highest-leverage work

Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Twelve Stoic strategies for caring less about others' opinions

The Daily Stoic June 6, 2025


Identity & self-belief 9
Resilience & grit 6
  • Other people's opinions are outside your control — and always were
  • Cato and Diogenes deliberately courted judgment to build immunity to it
  • Whose feedback matters: solicited, from people whose life you'd trade

AI strategy & adoption

Podcast

Anthropic's CPO Mike Krieger on AI timelines, product strategy, and the future of building

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth June 5, 2025


AI strategy & adoption 9
Product-market fit 7
Competitive analysis 6
  • 90% of Anthropic's code is AI-written — bottlenecks have moved to alignment and merging
  • Embedding product teams in model post-training yields far more leverage than UX work alone
  • MCP's real goal: make every AI integration composable and reusable across all models

Vision & mission

Podcast

Simon Sinek on finding your why, great leadership, and the friendship advantage

Masters of Scale June 5, 2025


Vision & mission 9
Culture building 8
Relationships & family 7
  • Why missionaries take less money to protect their mission
  • Friendship is the ultimate biohack for health and longevity
  • AI companions hijack oxytocin — without giving anything back

Physical & cognitive performance

YouTube

How brain-body communication shapes health, mood, and performance

Andrew Huberman June 5, 2025


Physical & cognitive performance 8
Resilience & grit 5
  • Your emotions are built from gut, heart, and breath signals — not thought
  • Exhale length directly controls heart rate and calm within seconds
  • Daily fermented foods outperform fibre for brain and immune health

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