6 October 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, ai, and leadership, with new digests from Rob Walling, TK Kader, and How I Work. Highlights include Your AI category determines your risk profile — know which one you're in. Your manifesto must be about the customer, never about you
Showing 54 digests for 6 October 2025.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Questions every AI startup founder should ask before AGI arrives
Y Combinator
October 7, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
Vision & mission
7
SaaS may die as enterprises build in-house with AI coding tools
Smaller AI-native teams erode the human trust guardrails inside companies
Hard physical problems remain the most defensible moat after AGI
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
Google's AI origins: how the transformer creator became the AI underdog
Acquired
October 6, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
Case studies
8
Business models
6
Google published the transformer paper — then let OpenAI run with it
The only company with model, chip, cloud, and mass-market distribution
Waymo: 91% fewer serious crashes, Google-sized market, still barely noticed
Founder interviews
YouTube
Building Resilience: DJ Shipley on the SEAL Mindset, Recovery, and Ibogaine
Andrew Huberman
October 6, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
8
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Mental posture, built every morning, determines how much life can break you.
Ibogaine ended a decade of 60-pill-a-day pharmaceutical dependency overnight.
The SEAL quality that wins wars — never switching off — destroys families at home.
How to start strong in a top leadership role
Coaching for Leaders
October 6, 2025
Management
9
Vision & mission
7
Half of new CEOs are failing within 18 months of starting
The first weeks are a rare window — people tell you truths they won't later
Bold moves need a fact base, not gut instinct or self-reported data
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Five evidence-based strategies for resetting your life this fall
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 6, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Time management
8
Goal setting
7
A weekly brain dump replaces anxiety with a scannable, manageable task list.
Tracking media consumption by daily score reveals what actually makes you feel good.
Separate life visions from tractable next goals — work on one or two at a time.
Pitching investors
YouTube
Crafting a one-liner elevator pitch that makes people want to know more
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
October 6, 2025
Pitching investors
8
Copywriting
7
Leading with your title kills perceived value — lead with the problem instead.
One problem only: value-stacking dilutes your message and loses the listener.
Specificity in product and result removes objections before they're raised.
Founder interviews
YouTube
AI, entrepreneurship, and the leadership flaw Gary Vee took 20 years to fix
GaryVee
October 6, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Culture building
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
AI will make human-looking robots indistinguishable from people within 7 years.
Built wine library to $60M, left with nothing — then built Vayner from scratch.
Candor failures let people be surprised when fired, destroying the culture he prized.
Pressbox: How a boring laundry startup beat Procter & Gamble and sold to Tide
How I Built This with Guy Raz
October 6, 2025
Case studies
10
Business models
8
Unit economics
7
Eliminating the storefront turned a 15% margin into 40%.
Lockers beat Uber-for-X rivals with 26 transactions per hour vs. four.
P&G tried to buy out their landlords; almost all refused.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic strategies for worry, presence, and rooting for others
The Daily Stoic
October 6, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Anxiety is often a choice — presence and calm are available now.
Envy punishes you most; it's the only deadly sin with no upside.
Mittenfreude: actively wishing others well is a trainable virtue.