30 June 2025
This week's additions focus on strategy, mindset, and marketing, with new digests from Rob Walling, EO, and TK Kader. Highlights include Credit card upfront doubles growth vs no-CC trials, per survey data. A broken product today becomes excellent when the next model generation ships.
Showing 58 digests for 30 June 2025.
Competitive analysis
YouTube
How to find your unfair strategic advantage
Alex M H Smith
July 3, 2025
Competitive analysis
9
Vision & mission
6
Your best advantage is probably the thing you're ignoring
Low effort, high return signals where your real edge is
Ten asset categories reveal non-replicable advantages you already own
Physical & cognitive performance
YouTube
Understanding and conquering major depression: biology and tools
Andrew Huberman
July 3, 2025
Physical & cognitive performance
9
Mental health & wellbeing
7
Three neurotransmitter systems each drive distinct depression symptom clusters
Inflammation hijacks tryptophan away from serotonin — diet and exercise reverse it
Psilocybin produced 50–70% improvement in a 2021 randomised clinical trial
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Chrono Leadership: Aligning Work Rhythms With Your Biology
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
July 3, 2025
Productivity & habits
8
Culture building
7
Management
5
Your chronotype is genetic; forcing the wrong rhythm damages health and productivity.
Productivity doubles when teams align meetings and deep work to members' biological peaks.
Morning person? Afternoon person? Design your life, work, and relationships around your verified peak hours.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to scale copywriting income from $10k to $25k per month
Matthew Volkwyn
July 3, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Pitching investors
7
Pricing strategy
5
Ego, not skill, is why most copywriters stall at $10k/month.
Invest minimum 10% of income in biz dev — treat it as a tax.
Top-1% income requires rejecting 'good enough' as a daily choice.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Shifting from passive observer to active director of your life
Brendon Burchard
July 3, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Goal setting
5
Worth collapses when attention goes to circumstance, not character
Treat yourself as both director and character to break any low scene
Agency over certainty — situations are malleable if you act across scenes
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to hire the right COO for your company's current stage
Cameron Herold
July 3, 2025
Hiring & recruitment
9
Vision & mission
6
Management
5
The COO who got you to $100M will likely fail at $1B.
Start with an activity inventory of everything you avoid or suck at.
Knowing how to do something is not the same as having done it.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Seven habits separating top 1% AI users from everyone else
Dylan Davis
July 3, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
AI tools & automation
8
Automation & tools
5
Dictating instead of typing unlocks dramatically faster AI throughput.
Projects and context-loading separate casual users from power users.
Model loyalty is a trap — top performers switch models by task.
How Julius AI reached 2 million users by staying focused
EO
July 3, 2025
Niche selection
8
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Growth hacking
6
Narrow focus on one job beats general-purpose AI tools every time
Losing your main growth channel overnight forces better acquisition thinking
Build sharing into the product and users become your sales team
Pricing psychology
YouTube
How 730Eddy Studios grew from chaos to clarity using EOS
EOS Worldwide
July 3, 2025
Pricing psychology
9
Copywriting
9
Pricing strategy
7
Self-implementing EOS works — until a professional implementer shows what's possible
Separating visionary from integrator unlocked real leadership structure
Four years on EOS: team grew from 4 to nearly 20 people
How the Michelin brothers built a tire empire through marketing genius
Founders
July 3, 2025
Case studies
10
Business models
8
Growth hacking
7
They stopped selling tires and started selling movement itself.
The Michelin Guide was a tire ad disguised as a travel bible.
Complementary co-founders: one built the best product, one sold the world on it.
Why views don't convert to sales and how to fix it
GaryVee
July 3, 2025
Social media
8
Community building
7
Resilience & grit
5
10,000 views with zero sales means your audience doesn't feel known by you.
Scaling the unscalable: reply to every DM and comment, one person at a time.
AI will trigger government-level regulatory alliances — prepare with one hour daily.
Jim Koch on brand story, capital discipline, and premium pricing
How I Built This with Guy Raz
July 3, 2025
Niche selection
9
Branding
8
Pricing strategy
8
Find 100 true believers first — volume follows their evangelism
Early investor money is the most expensive capital you can take
Lead with your price premium — hiding it repels the wrong customers
Resilience & grit
Podcast
What Stoicism teaches about leadership, ambition, and mentorship
The Daily Stoic
July 3, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Motivation
8
Communication
5
The past can never be taken from you — only the future can.
Tie ambition to craft, not approval, or you'll always lose.
Real mentorship means watching someone model the work daily.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Andrew Wilkinson on finding great startup ideas, AI workflows, and why money doesn't buy happiness
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
July 3, 2025
Founder interviews
9
AI tools & automation
8
Niche selection
7
Fish where the fish are — boring, low-competition niches beat exciting crowded markets.
AI agents replaced a full-time assistant for $200/month — and we're still early.
A billion dollars didn't cure anxiety; one SSRI finally did.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
How fluid intelligence and program search point toward AGI
Y Combinator
July 3, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
MVP & prototyping
5
50,000x more compute barely moved ARC scores — scaling alone fails.
Test-time adaptation unlocked fluid intelligence; it is still not enough.
AGI needs deep learning intuition fused with discrete program search.