10 November 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, founder stories, and strategy, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Starter Story, and EO. Highlights include ImageNet's real innovation was big data, not a smarter algorithm. A 3-hour weekend build now earns $35K/month at 99.8% margins
Showing 52 digests for 10 November 2025.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Ryan Holiday's 6-year process of writing Wisdom Takes Work
The Daily Stoic
November 14, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
7
Post-mortems
6
Why loving hardship means loving what it demands of you
A notecards-to-manuscript system built over six years
Finishing big projects requires doing them a little at a time
AI tools & automation
YouTube
How Flexport is using AI to cut ocean freight costs by 8-10%
Y Combinator
November 14, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
8
Business models
6
AI cut container transit time 20% while also reducing cost
90-95% of freight-forwarding work could soon be automated
Raise a big round, then freeze hiring for 90 days
From "dumbest idea ever" to $100M ARR: How Gamma built a profitable AI unicorn
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
November 13, 2025
Growth hacking
9
Product-market fit
8
Pricing strategy
6
Winning Product Hunt still isn't product market fit — organic pull is
Micro-influencers in niche echo chambers outperform celebrity creators every time
Lean teams of generalists beat headcount targets — all 10 founding hires still there
Physical & cognitive performance
YouTube
How breathing controls brain state, emotion, and cognitive function
Andrew Huberman
November 13, 2025
Physical & cognitive performance
8
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Slow breathing 30 min/day reduces fear response as much as amygdala surgery
Five pathways link breathing rhythm directly to emotion and brain state
Magnesium threonate reversed 8 years of cognitive decline in a 3-month trial
Business operating systems
Podcast
Coinbase COO on crypto regulation, operating principles, and the future of finance
Masters of Scale
November 13, 2025
Business operating systems
8
Management
5
How Coinbase beat the SEC with grassroots politics and a super PAC
Committees are a fireable offense — one owner per decision, always
Tokenisation shifts the web from read/write to read/write/own
How one desperate night broke a creative block and launched a career
Brendon Burchard
November 13, 2025
Origin stories
10
Resilience & grit
8
Watching your partner sleep under your unpaid bills forces clarity.
Advice from experts can be the wrong path for your work.
Defying conventional wisdom and going all-in took just 18 days.
How a Developer Built a $400K/Month AI Fitness App in Two Months
Starter Story
November 13, 2025
Case studies
10
Growth hacking
7
MVP & prototyping
6
Copy a competitor's UX, fix its broken core product.
One Reddit post drove thousands of users on day one.
Spanish-language ads under $50/day unlocked early scale.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
The AI terms that actually matter for getting work done
Dylan Davis
November 13, 2025
AI tools & automation
10
No-code & low-code
6
Most AI jargon is noise — only a handful of terms change what you can do.
Voice, canvas, agent mode, and MCP connectors are the interaction shifts that matter.
Context window size and context engineering determine output quality more than prompt wording.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Wisdom, writing, and the craft of learning: Ryan Holiday in conversation
The Daily Stoic
November 13, 2025
Founder interviews
8
Deep work & focus
7
Productivity & habits
6
Wisdom cannot be defined — only earned through deliberate, unglamorous work.
Writing forces you to confront gaps in thinking that reading alone never reveals.
Smart people fail not from lack of intelligence but from skipping synthesis.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoicism on anger, corruption, courage, and anxiety
The Daily Stoic
November 13, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Communication
5
Anger makes smart people act stupidly — Seneca explains why.
Staying principled inside corrupt systems, from Roman governors to today.
Criticism is a gift; anxious projections are self-generated and droppable.
Founder advice on funding, B2B sales, and inventory for early-stage businesses
How I Built This with Guy Raz
November 13, 2025
B2B sales
8
Case studies
7
Bootstrapping
7
Overfunding kills startups — constraint forces clarity on what matters
B2B sales work best as an inside job, not cold outreach
Inventory-constrained growth is solvable through supplier trust and creative financing
Seven process signs your business can't run without you
Layla at ProcessDriven
November 13, 2025
Processes & SOPs
10
Delegation
6
Recurring mistakes and dropped balls are process failures, not people failures.
60–80% of team work is routine — ignoring it to chase new projects kills the business.
Automate and decentralise coordination before hiring anyone to manage the chaos.
Deep work & focus
YouTube
Inside Tavus: The AI Startup Building Human-Like Digital Replicas
The Science of Scaling
November 13, 2025
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Automation & tools
6
Why Tavus shut down revenue in 2023 to restart as a research lab
AI humans that see, hear, and act — not just talk back
Small deliberate teams beat fast headcount growth, even post-fundraise
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Starcloud: building AI data centers in orbit
Y Combinator
November 13, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
8
Case studies
7
Business models
6
First Nvidia H100 GPU ever operated in space, launched 2025
Orbital data centers need zero fresh water and unlimited solar power
Falling launch costs make space compute cheaper than Earth within a decade
Seven social media marketing trends reshaping 2026
Neil Patel
November 12, 2025
Social media
10
Copywriting
7
Conversion rate optimisation
6
Platforms are closing their ecosystems — off-platform traffic strategies are losing sales.
Expert niche creators with 50k followers now outperform million-follower generic influencers.
Gen Z is pulling back from social; shallow content is accelerating that exit.