20 October 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, leadership, and strategy, with new digests from Matthew Volkwyn, Cameron Herold, and Rob Walling. Highlights include Curiosity about the client's business beats any sales script. Your second-in-command should cover exactly what drains you as a founder
Showing 56 digests for 20 October 2025.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Five ways to build an AI-powered income stream
Dan Martell
October 24, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
B2B sales
7
Business owners will pay top dollar for someone to set up AI they can't figure out.
No coding needed: AI tools build websites, workshops, and content automatically.
Your existing network contains hidden partnerships — AI surfaces what you can't see.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Why ego is fear: self-confidence, candor, and the mindset to win
GaryVee
October 24, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Communication
5
Ego is just fear in disguise — confident people don't need it.
Kind candor one-on-one was GaryVee's blind spot for 25 years.
Your algorithm reflects you — one hour can reset it entirely.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic tools for staying calm in chaotic, triggering times
The Daily Stoic
October 24, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
5
Doom scrolling changes your mood, not the world — stop.
No one can make you angry; you choose to take offense.
Stoicism means less destructive emotion, not zero emotion.
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
AI engineering fundamentals: what actually improves AI products
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
October 23, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
AI tools & automation
8
Iteration & feedback loops
6
Talking to users beats chasing new models and frameworks every time.
Data preparation drives RAG quality more than any database choice.
Idea generation, not execution, is now the bottleneck for AI products.
Physical & cognitive performance
YouTube
The science of gratitude and how to build an effective practice
Andrew Huberman
October 23, 2025
Physical & cognitive performance
8
Listing things you're grateful for doesn't activate the right circuits.
Receiving — not giving — gratitude produces the strongest brain response.
60 seconds on one story, twice a week, reduces anxiety and inflammation.
Highest-paying copywriting projects and markets in 2025
Matthew Volkwyn
October 23, 2025
Copywriting
9
Prospecting & outreach
5
Video scripts pay 5x more than emails for the same word count
AI killed commodity email copy — strategy and funnels are the new premium
Industry tailwinds matter more than niche; telehealth is the current wave
Productivity & habits
YouTube
How to stop feeling stuck by naming problems accurately
Brendon Burchard
October 23, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
7
Globalising a stuck paragraph into 'writer's block' keeps you stuck longer.
Perfectionism and procrastination share roots: inadequacy and uncertainty respectively.
Self-loathing — not low self-esteem — is where progress becomes nearly impossible.
Why "core values" is the wrong label for company rules
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
October 23, 2025
Culture building
9
Management
6
Calling them "values" forces you to hire people who think like you
Atlassian's rules stayed fixed across 50 to 14,000 employees
Rules enable diversity; values-based hiring kills it
Saying No as a Business Strategy: How Fewer Commitments Drive More Revenue
Silicon Valley Girl
October 23, 2025
Vision & mission
9
Productivity & habits
8
Communication
6
Saying no to smaller deals doubled revenue by freeing capacity for bigger brands.
Each interruption costs 23 minutes of refocus — notifications kill deep work.
Separating your public persona from yourself makes criticism easier to act on.
Outsourcing & delegation
YouTube
How one solo founder grew a transit app to $30K MRR
Starter Story
October 23, 2025
Outsourcing & delegation
8
Culture building
7
Free hyper-local App Store keywords drove 5 million downloads.
A/B-tested paywalls lifted conversion from 0.5% to 8%.
Event analytics, not download counts, unlocked real growth.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
AI browser agents are replacing manual web workflows
Dylan Davis
October 23, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
6
Every major tech company is building an AI layer between you and the internet
Agents work today for simple tasks but fail when steps chain together
Detailed, constrained prompts with explicit completion steps are the key to reliability
Founder interviews
Podcast
How John Zimmer advises founders on scaling, funding, and burnout
How I Built This with Guy Raz
October 23, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
7
Niche selection
6
Test US expansion cheap before committing to warehousing or headcount.
Pre-orders aren't a cop-out — they're community-funded inventory finance.
Self-care isn't selfish: founder health directly caps team performance.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Happiness and wisdom are the same thing, and both take work
The Daily Stoic
October 23, 2025
Why Elon Musk's $500B net worth couldn't buy him happiness
Stoic happiness is stillness and contentment, not pleasure
Ego is bad fuel — it clouds perception and makes hard things harder
Why small teams fail to execute and how to fix it
Layla at ProcessDriven
October 23, 2025
Processes & SOPs
10
Management
6
80% of small teams never write tasks down at all
Ordinary work fills 60–80% of roles but runs entirely on memory
One ordered list replaces status meetings and unblocks execution
How Doola's founder locked himself in the office to hit 1,000 LLCs in 23 days
The Science of Scaling
October 23, 2025
Case studies
10
Growth hacking
7
Productivity & habits
6
Living in the office for 23 days generated $1 million in revenue
50% referral commissions turned word of mouth into Doola's strongest channel
Daily vlogs doubled as a recruiting tool, attracting hires mid-challenge