18 August 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and marketing, with new digests from Rob Walling, TK Kader, and How I Work. Highlights include Workflow is the most important ICP element, not firmographics. Companies with a proper ICP see 68% higher win rates
Showing 46 digests for 18 August 2025.
Physical health & longevity
YouTube
Light timing for better sleep, energy, and mood
Andrew Huberman
August 21, 2025
Physical health & longevity
8
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Physical & cognitive performance
5
Your body clock drifts 0.2 hrs daily without morning sunlight.
Light affects mood via brain pathways entirely separate from sleep.
Viewing light at the wrong time can worsen jet lag, not fix it.
Motivation is the foundation of discipline, not its opposite
Brendon Burchard
August 21, 2025
Motivation
10
Productivity & habits
8
No habit ever formed without motivation — motive comes first.
"You don't need motivation" confuses motive with enthusiasm.
Chronic fatigue overrides every other discipline system.
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
How to build animated, code-based presentations with AI
Dylan Davis
August 21, 2025
Compliance & regulation
7
AI's coding ability makes PowerPoint-style tools obsolete
Write your substance first — AI handles visual generation only
Deploy slides as a public URL; no software needed to view
Founder interviews
Podcast
TinySeed Tales Season 5: Harris Kenney's agency-to-SaaS transition
Startups For the Rest of Us
August 21, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Pivoting
8
Bootstrapping
6
Why running an agency and SaaS simultaneously almost always fails
Full commitment to one idea was the multiplier, not extra hours
From accidental product idea to $10K MRR in nine months
Building on social media, focus, and going all-in on your dream
GaryVee
August 21, 2025
Motivation
9
Content marketing
8
Goal setting
6
More platforms, more formats, more output — volume is the only lever.
Ages 17–29 are the golden window for high-risk, dream-chasing bets.
AI, live streaming, and no-code apps are the next four years.
Jamie Siminoff of Ring gives advice to three early-stage founders
How I Built This with Guy Raz
August 21, 2025
Niche selection
8
MVP & prototyping
7
Growth hacking
6
Why a product that does everything is hard to sell to anyone
Pricing premium ethical chocolate: start high, earn the brand
Entrepreneurship is a dark tunnel — you rarely see the full light
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Three ancient Stoic secrets for self-knowledge, moderation, and wisdom
The Daily Stoic
August 21, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
8
Goal setting
6
The three Delphic maxims are the operating system beneath Stoic practice
Break overwhelming projects into minimum daily chunks to sustain momentum
True contentment means running your own race, ignoring external metrics
Project management
YouTube
Four elements every task needs to stop feeling overwhelmed
Layla at ProcessDriven
August 21, 2025
Project management
10
Productivity & habits
6
Most overdue tasks stem from missing structure, not bad software.
Any task bigger than one work sitting is actually a project.
Shared ownership kills accountability — one task, one named person.
Sales Technique That Beats "Send Me an Email" on Cold Calls
The Science of Scaling
August 21, 2025
Delegation
9
Resilience & grit
6
Agree to the email request, then immediately layer on a calendar hold
Confirm the invite was received before ending the call — that is where the meeting is won
Re-engage the contact for a short prep call after multi-stakeholder meetings are booked to regain one-on-one discovery access
How to get cited by Perplexity and attract ready-to-buy traffic
Neil Patel
August 20, 2025
SEO
9
Content marketing
8
Conversion rate optimisation
6
Perplexity users spend 11–23 minutes per session — they're ready to buy
Small blogs get more AI citations than CNN; domain authority doesn't matter
400 AI-referred visitors can outperform 10,000 Google visitors in revenue
Business operating systems
YouTube
Gino Wickman live Q&A: EOS, leadership, and self-knowledge
EOS Worldwide
August 20, 2025
Business operating systems
9
Management
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Why EOS fails when leadership isn't bought in first
How to tell your team you're selling — and survive it
Shedding ego and trauma is the real work of self-leadership
AI tools & automation
Podcast
How a CEO used AI to reclaim 25 hours a week
How I Work
August 20, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Delegation
8
Automation & tools
6
Built a custom GPT that cuts interview admin from hours to 45 seconds
An AI writer's room challenges her thinking without writing for her
Every recovered hour goes straight to people and long-range planning
AI tools & automation
Podcast
How Flight Story built 48 AI tools and saved 62,000 hours
How I Work
August 20, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
7
Customer discovery
5
A $20,000 internal competition produced 48 tools and $1M savings
AI tool predicts breakout podcast guests before they go mainstream
5,000-person pre-watch tests remove editor bias before episodes publish
Write a standout headline using the "like a blank, unlike any blank" formula
Joanna Wiebe
August 20, 2025
One formula produces a strong headline in under sixty seconds
Fill both blanks with your product's generic category name
Guesswork slows copy down more than lack of time does
How to turn familiar phrases into compelling copy headlines
Joanna Wiebe
August 20, 2025
Borrow a phrase your audience trusts, then swap one word
Google category sayings to find axioms worth hijacking
Most substitutions fail — flag only the positive-framed wins