22 September 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and marketing, with new digests from Rob Walling, EO, and Founders. Highlights include Source like outbound sales: tap network, don't rely on job boards alone. Email login replaces seed phrases — non-custodial security without the friction
Showing 55 digests for 22 September 2025.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
12 Stoic lessons from Homer's Odyssey
The Daily Stoic
September 23, 2025
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Shouting your name after victory — how ego adds 10 years to your journey
The sirens sing what you want to hear: algorithms do too
Odysseus reached Ithaca and immediately left — restlessness is self-inflicted torture
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic virtue and panic: living well without fame or power
The Daily Stoic
September 23, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Stoicism's true model is ordinary people, not emperors or senators
Panic is self-inflicted harm that weakens us over time
Napoleon's rehearsal method: think through feared scenarios in advance
Why now is the best time to build crypto products
Y Combinator
September 23, 2025
Business models
9
Niche selection
7
AI strategy & adoption
5
Chain costs fell 1000x — the broadband moment for crypto has arrived.
Regulatory clarity lets builders spend money on engineers, not lawyers.
Every legacy financial system can now be rewritten in hundreds of lines of code.
Work-life balance
YouTube
Using vivid vision to build a balanced life beyond work
Cameron Herold
September 22, 2025
Work-life balance
9
Goal setting
7
Work-as-identity leads to depression, weight gain, and disconnection
A present-tense vivid vision replaces goals with felt identity
Olympic visualization science shows you perform how you rehearse
Six questions every leader should ask to manage themselves better
Coaching for Leaders
September 22, 2025
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
7
85% of 'best boss' traits are interpersonal — not IQ or expertise
Self-knowledge is a prerequisite for managing others with credibility
Your calendar and your anger both reveal what you truly value
How to clarify your business message so customers buy faster
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
September 22, 2025
Copywriting
9
Branding
8
Closing techniques
6
Customers filter out confusing messages before they even register them
Own the problem your customers face and you own the market
One sentence — problem, product, result — will grow your business
How to build a people-first culture that makes your vision inevitable
EOS Worldwide
September 22, 2025
Culture building
10
Business operating systems
9
Vision stalls without right people — 82% of businesses prove it
Core values must be lived daily, not displayed on a wall
100% right people in right seats: 80% is not good enough
How to win at marketing in the AI and pop culture era
GaryVee
September 22, 2025
Growth hacking
9
Content marketing
8
Branding
7
Boosting organically weak content with paid spend is the single worst marketing mistake.
Interest media algorithms reward authentic niche passion over follower count or trend-chasing.
Winning brands combine platform knowledge, algorithm fluency, and real-time pop culture awareness.
How Poppi went from farmers market vinegar drink to a $2B Pepsi acquisition
How I Built This with Guy Raz
September 22, 2025
Case studies
10
Pivoting
7
Branding
6
Calling a health drink 'soda' when soda was a dirty word.
A viral TikTok story post drove $100K in overnight Amazon sales.
Shark Tank investor forced a full rebrand — and was right.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Stoic principles: small daily steps and embracing hard challenges
The Daily Stoic
September 22, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
8
Boring, repeated daily action — not talent — drives transformation.
Adversity is a sparring partner chosen to make you stronger.
Epictetus: one gain per day compounds into no small thing.