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.
Business operating systems
YouTube
Six phases to scale a business from chaos to empire
Dan Martell
November 12, 2025
Business operating systems
9
Processes & SOPs
8
Management
7
Hire only to buy back your time, then reinvest it in higher-value work.
Cutting low-margin offers and focusing on one scalable product unlocks growth.
Culture and leadership systems replace the founder as the business's engine.
Live social shopping, accountability, and doing the work
GaryVee
November 12, 2025
Growth hacking
8
Resilience & grit
7
Prospecting & outreach
5
10K+ followers who like selling have a massive untapped income opportunity
Declining reach is almost always a skill gap, not an algorithm change
Thinking about quitting means nothing — the numbers already make the case
Founder interviews
Podcast
Refusing to shrink: Dr Catriona Wallace on identity, parenthood, and AI leadership
How I Work
November 12, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Identity & self-belief
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
Turning down million-dollar investments to keep her nose ring
Bringing kids to VC meetings instead of chasing work-life balance
AI's capacity to lie means ethics must be built in from day one
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Cheryl Strayed turned loss into self-discovery and creative purpose
The Daily Stoic
November 12, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Courage is a muscle you build — not a trait you have or lack
Finishing the work is the only success entirely within your control
It's not your fault, but your life is still your responsibility
Founder interviews
Podcast
How plant medicine transformed Catriona Wallace's leadership
How I Work
November 12, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Seven hours of ayahuasca confronted ego, not enlightenment
Accepting your shadow — not fighting it — is how it releases
Swap 'what's my purpose?' for 'what is needed of me?'
How VCs really evaluate startups in the AI era
Masters of Scale
November 11, 2025
Fundraising & VC
9
Long-term planning
6
The funding bar has moved — product-market fit alone no longer cuts it
Raising too much at inflated valuations can kill your next round
Times of disruption open doors for founders from overlooked communities
Competitive analysis
YouTube
Nine strategy secrets for building a truly differentiated business
Alex M H Smith
November 11, 2025
Being 'better' than rivals just makes you the same as them.
Sacrifice is the only source of ideas competitors won't dare copy.
Look to competitors' blind spots, not customer research, for breakthroughs.
Bootstrapping Missive to $8M ARR with three developers
Startups For the Rest of Us
November 11, 2025
Case studies
9
Bootstrapping
7
SEO
6
Two-way email server sync is the moat no competitor bothers building.
Affiliate program built in-house drives 30% of new user growth.
Staying horizontal kept any single industry below 6% of revenue.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
How to choose the right AI tool for your business workflows
Dylan Davis
November 11, 2025
AI tools & automation
10
Automation & tools
7
Benchmarks lie — test AI tools against your actual tasks
Claude leads on integrations; ChatGPT on data analysis
Stay on monthly plans so you can switch when models improve
Business operating systems
YouTube
Rolling EOS down to every level of your organisation
EOS Worldwide
November 11, 2025
Business operating systems
9
Management
6
EOS only works if frontline employees understand their role in it.
Resistance to EOS almost always means resistance to accountability.
Reframing accountability as freedom unlocks buy-in at every level.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stoic self-judgment: philosophy as medicine, not a weapon
The Daily Stoic
November 11, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Philosophy is medicine for your soul, not a weapon against others
Marcus Aurelius's daughter died heroically; his son became a tyrant
Certainty your soul isn't rusty is itself the rust
Lean Startup in emerging markets: building climate and health infrastructure
Lean Startup Co.
November 11, 2025
Case studies
10
Business models
7
Corporate go-to-market models collapse when the market doesn't yet exist.
Equity alignment — not employment — is what makes honest decisions possible.
Bite-sized milestones let investors fund high-capital infrastructure with lean iteration.
Why Disney's site appeared to sell black hat SEO packages
Ahrefs
November 10, 2025
A 302 redirect kept Disney's login page indexed unintentionally.
Spammy backlinks flooded the page with black-hat anchor text.
Google's title rewriter used those anchors to label the sitelink.
Physical & cognitive performance
YouTube
How the brain builds thoughts from sensory simulations
Andrew Huberman
November 10, 2025
Physical & cognitive performance
8
Deep work & focus
7
Productivity & habits
5
Thinking is the brain running sensory simulations, not abstract computation.
Eye movements physically reshape hearing — eardrums move with every saccade.
Your sensory environment directly determines the quality of your focus.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Persisting through rejection: how Brendon Burchard published Life's Golden Ticket
Brendon Burchard
November 10, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
8
Broke, rejected by 20+ publishers — why he kept writing anyway
The in-between dip, not the start, is where progress is won or lost
A circus-tent book launch that changed an entire industry's playbook