7 July 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and marketing, with new digests from Ryan Deiss, Founders, and TK Kader. Highlights include Wearing more than two hats at once signals a broken business model Orphaned at seven, Del Vecchio became the world's eyewear monopolist
Showing 49 digests for 7 July 2025.
Business operating systems
YouTube
How Adamy Valuation built a strong leadership team with EOS
EOS Worldwide
July 9, 2025
Business operating systems
10
Delegation
7
Culture building
5
No leadership team meant one person carried every decision alone
EOS forced role clarity that distributed burden and empowered others
Staff adopted EOS as default operating mode, not an imposed process
How to use the StoryBrand framework to grow your business with sound bites
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
July 9, 2025
Customers decide in under two seconds if you can help them survive.
Seven story-based sound bites — from problem to failure stakes — drive sales.
A $100k messaging campaign beats a $1M one if you use the right words.
How to have difficult conversations at work without dread
How I Work
July 9, 2025
Labelling it 'difficult' makes the conversation harder before it starts
Delay turns feedback into an ambush — bad news never improves with time
Prepare with themes and open questions, not scripts you'll broadcast
From copywriter to offer owner: lessons from a $10M cold-traffic marketer
Matthew Volkwyn
July 8, 2025
Niche selection
8
Resilience & grit
7
Growth hacking
6
Most copywriters never launch offers because they won't risk their own money.
Outside the guru bubble, massive operators barely use copywriting at all.
Top copywriters in the cold-traffic world earn $100K/month in royalties.
Six skills that earn lasting respect from others
Dan Martell
July 8, 2025
Communication
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Every comment you let slide teaches others that behaviour is acceptable.
Being liked by everyone means you're not saying anything that matters.
Authenticity is a consistency play — the same person in every room.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Seven lessons from building 50+ AI automations
Dylan Davis
July 8, 2025
AI tools & automation
10
Automation & tools
7
Automate the highest-impact bottleneck first, not the most interesting one.
Prove feasibility with a top model before optimising for cost or speed.
One model and one hour beat three weeks of regex pipelines.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Ten entrepreneurial decisions behind Rob Walling's success
Startups For the Rest of Us
July 8, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
9
Bootstrapping
6
Doing unglamorous, boring work consistently beats talent or luck.
Build a financial cushion before taking meaningful entrepreneurial bets.
Never make permanent decisions in the heat of burnout or anger.
From one-on-one coaching trap to scalable online business
Sunny Lenarduzzi
July 8, 2025
Business models
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Funnels
5
Success at one-on-one work traps you in an expensive job, not a business
80% of what coaches do is identical across clients — that's the scalable asset
A 10-week pilot launch path from methodology extraction to paying clients
Accounting basics
YouTube
How to stop losing money in your FSA and maximize your HSA
HR Party of One
July 8, 2025
Accounting basics
9
Productivity & habits
5
Half of FSA holders forfeit money every year — here's why
HSA beats every retirement account with a triple tax advantage
Reimburse yourself decades later using the phantom receipt strategy
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How the powerless become powerful through stoic practice
The Daily Stoic
July 8, 2025
Identity & self-belief
7
Resilience & grit
6
Mental health & wellbeing
5
A slave commanded an emperor's attention by mastering his own mind
Expecting thanks for good deeds poisons the act itself
Virtue done for its own sake outlasts any reward-seeking strategy
Building real things: how to thrive in tech during the AI era
Y Combinator
July 8, 2025
Niche selection
9
AI strategy & adoption
7
Identity & self-belief
6
CS majors now face higher unemployment than art history majors.
Tiny AI teams reach eight-figure revenue in months — unprecedented.
Agency and domain curiosity beat credentials in the AI era.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Nutrition Science for Fat Loss and Muscle Gain with Alan Aragon
Andrew Huberman
July 7, 2025
AI tools & automation
10
Physical health & longevity
9
Contracts & agreements
8
Total daily protein beats meal timing — almost every time
You can gain muscle and lose fat simultaneously, at any age
Seed oils, fasted training, and the anabolic window are widely misunderstood
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Winning at work: the unwritten rules of career advancement
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
July 7, 2025
Identity & self-belief
7
Communication
6
Productivity & habits
5
Great work goes unnoticed if no one knows its impact.
70% of your work should be visible and promotable — not just done.
Knowing your one differentiating skill beats being good at everything.
How CEOs and COOs build an effective working partnership
Cameron Herold
July 7, 2025
Management
9
Delegation
7
Outsourcing & delegation
5
Undefined roles — not bad hiring — are what breaks CEO-COO partnerships.
The COO's job is to make the CEO iconic, never compete for credit.
Skip-level meetings only work if the CEO listens and never commits unilaterally.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
One-page productivity: a maintenance mode for time management
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
July 7, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Processes & SOPs
6
A calendar plus one sheet of paper prevents burnout without chaos.
Recovery without detraining — the athlete model applied to productivity.
Why execution after a decision matters more than the choice itself.