How to identify your values and stop living on autopilot

How I Work June 11, 2025

• Why avoidance behaviours almost always signal a values disconnection
• Kindness and boundaries are the same value — just bi-directional
• One phrase that breaks cognitive fusion instantly: 'I notice I'm having the thought that…'

Cursor CEO Michael Truell on the future of software development

Y Combinator June 11, 2025

• Taste — knowing what to build — is the one skill AI cannot automate.
• Cursor's moat mirrors search: scale generates signal that sharpens the model.
• Building an editor, not an extension, was the non-obvious bet that paid off.

Trump, crypto policy, and what it means for your portfolio

Masters of Scale June 10, 2025

• Stablecoins have found real product-market fit in currency-unstable economies
• Trump's personal meme coin dealings undercut his administration's crypto credibility
• Coinbase joining the S&P 500 means index investors already own crypto

Five rare strategic questions to unlock business growth

Alex M H Smith June 10, 2025

• Your true competitors may not be the brands that look like you
• Trader Joe's turned a glaring weakness into a revenue-per-foot record
• Oatly grew a category by targeting people who didn't want oat milk

How First Form built a billion-dollar culture without investors

Dan Martell June 10, 2025

• Your standards are not what you say — they are what you accept.
• Billion-dollar companies train people; tell-check-next loops create bottlenecks.
• Expanding people's physical reference point is the fastest way to raise ambition.

MCP in production: why it fails and how to use it safely

Dylan Davis June 10, 2025

• MCP agents fail 20–50% of the time with today's best models.
• Four rules cut failure rate: fewer tools, human language, chaos limits, locked dangerous actions.
• Only coding, research, and triage have proven production-scale success today.

Pricing pilots, niching down, and the stair-step method

Startups For the Rest of Us June 10, 2025

• Charge for pilots — free ones waste time and remove skin from the game.
• De-risking a niche bet is just hedging; course-correct instead.
• Acquisitions beat builds for learning: skip straight to product-market fit.

YouTube revenue strategy: maximize dollar per view, not total views

Sunny Lenarduzzi June 10, 2025

• 6,800-view video earns $18k/month — $26 per view vs AdSense cents
• Bottom-of-funnel specificity converts viewers into clients, not just watchers
• Dollar per view beats subscriber count as the meaningful business metric

Google search is dead and IP is the last moat in an AI world

GaryVee June 10, 2025

• Google's intent-based search behaviour has already moved to AI tools.
• IP and NIL are the only assets AI cannot commoditise away.
• Distribution shifts — not the tech itself — predict who wins each era.

Put the suitcase away: choosing the right handle in daily life

The Daily Stoic June 10, 2025

• Physical clutter keeps the mind in transit — put the suitcase away.
• Every event has two handles; grab the one that gives you agency.
• Epictetus, enslaved 30 years, still chose the empowering handle.

Managing stress through small wins: mind, body, and spirit

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life June 9, 2025

• Schedule a daily worry slot to free your mind the rest of the day
• Caffeine tolerance is individual — reduce gradually with small swaps
• Build a personal loneliness list before you need it

Million-Dollar Personal Branding Masterclass | with Sky Stack

Matthew Volkwyn June 9, 2025

How to hire A players using structured interviews and reference checks

Cameron Herold June 9, 2025

• Only hire candidates scoring 4 or 5 on a structured 1–5 scale
• The threat of reference check exposes C players before any offer
• Video submissions and group interviews filter culture fit before resumes

Fundraising fundamentals for leaders who never planned to fundraise

Coaching for Leaders June 9, 2025

• The ask is only 5–10% of fundraising; relationships are everything.
• Budget goals tied to shortfalls demoralise teams — use three tiers instead.
• Connector, expert, closer: match volunteers to the right role, not the ask.

Why knowledge workers are burning out: the Thoreau schedule

Deep Questions with Cal Newport June 9, 2025

• Offices copied the factory shift model for brains — that's the burnout cause
• A 2–3 hour deep work day may match output of an exhausting eight-hour one
• AI ethics lags AI fluency by centuries — unsettling edge cases are inevitable