17 November 2025
This week's additions focus on leadership, mindset, and strategy, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Matthew Volkwyn, and Rob Walling. Highlights include Use nonviolent communication framework—observations, feelings, needs, requests—to resolve conflicts with mutual underst… Referrals are a byproduct of retention, not asking
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Sales systems & CRM
YouTube
Sales experts react to the internet's worst B2B sales advice
The Science of Scaling
November 20, 2025
Sales systems & CRM
8
Prospecting & outreach
7
Repeatable process beats natural talent for building scalable sales teams.
ABC harms sellers already rushing to close; methodology is not optional.
AI will replace 70% of sales tasks, making human connection the core skill.
Feature prioritisation
Podcast
Stewart Butterfield on building products people love
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
November 20, 2025
Feature prioritisation
9
Pivoting
7
Management
5
Reducing friction is wrong — the real challenge is always comprehension.
Hyper-realistic work-like activities silently consume most of a scaling org.
Long-run success is measured solely by value created for customers.
Cursor's head of design reviews startup websites built with AI
Y Combinator
November 20, 2025
Copywriting
9
Branding
8
AI tools & automation
6
Most AI-built sites fail the five-second 'what is this?' test.
Purple gradients, generic fonts, and clutter signal vibe-coded output.
Visitors ask four questions in order — answer them in that order.
Why great COOs say "no" more than you think
Cameron Herold
November 19, 2025
Management
9
Long-term planning
6
A COO who says yes more than no is a problem.
Evaluate every idea by people, time, money, and strategic fit.
Saying no keeps the company on the critical few, not the important many.
Business operating systems
YouTube
How EOS Worldwide lost focus and rebuilt using its own tools
EOS Worldwide
November 19, 2025
Business operating systems
9
Case studies
8
Culture building
6
A 60% profit-margin business eroded through eight acquisitions and rationalised distraction.
Letting go of 38 people and selling software to reclaim a single core focus.
The Back to Basics checklist: six questions to diagnose and fix loss of focus.
MVP & prototyping
Podcast
How Elan Lee built Exploding Kittens into a 100-game empire
How I Work
November 19, 2025
MVP & prototyping
9
Iteration & feedback loops
8
Niche selection
5
Deliberate errors on a preview page turned observers into launch-day advocates.
Rejecting 'yes, and' improv: kill ideas fast, generate thousands instead.
One question decides if a game ships: 'Do you want to play again?'
AI tools & automation
Podcast
Exploding Kittens CEO uses AI as a silent thinking partner on daily walks
How I Work
November 19, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Deep work & focus
6
AI is most useful when it asks you questions, not answers them
A daily 2-3 hour walk with ChatGPT in silent-listener mode
Fill your head with raw material first; let AI help you combine it
How to Decide: Tools for Making Better Choices
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
November 18, 2025
Goal setting
8
Management
7
Good decisions can fail through luck; outcome quality doesn't prove decision quality.
Asynchronous team feedback beats group meetings for unbiased information discovery.
Build decision records—write predictions upfront to close feedback loops and defeat hindsight bias.
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
Seven-touch email sequence to revive ghosted leads
Ryan Deiss
November 18, 2025
Prospecting & outreach
9
Email marketing
6
A $50K dead deal was revived by a wolf joke email.
Raw selfie videos outperform polished studio content for re-engagement.
Your existing leads are more valuable than chasing new ones.
Business operating systems
YouTube
Eight levels of entrepreneurial growth from $100K to $100M+
Dan Martell
November 18, 2025
Business operating systems
10
Management
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Each revenue level demands a completely different operating model.
Buying back your time is the single unlock from $300K to $1M.
At $10M+, the bottleneck is always leadership structure, never effort.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to Become a Key Person of Influence in Your Industry
Daniel Priestley
November 18, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Branding
8
Pitching investors
6
Income follows a power law — top 5% earn exponentially more than everyone else.
Jumping industries chasing success resets your progress every time.
Five skills — pitch, publish, product, profile, partnerships — separate KPIs from the rest.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Building a $1M solo AI business: mindset, tools, and strategy
Silicon Valley Girl
November 18, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Productivity & habits
8
Business models
6
Your best startup idea is already inside your lived experience.
Treat AI as specialist co-founders, not one generic tool.
1% daily improvement compounds to 3,700% growth in a year.
Product-market fit
YouTube
How two college students rebuilt their app to reach $30K MRR
Starter Story
November 18, 2025
Product-market fit
10
Iteration & feedback loops
8
Case studies
6
Good distribution can't save a product users don't stay for.
Shutting down marketing to rebuild from scratch unlocked 50% paid conversion.
One viral influencer video took ARR from $8K to $38K in three days.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Seven ChatGPT tips that have the most immediate productivity impact
Dylan Davis
November 18, 2025
AI tools & automation
10
Productivity & habits
6
ChatGPT's free prompt optimizer injects best practices automatically — no expertise needed.
Projects give you a hyper-tailored AI for every recurring task you have.
Talking instead of typing delivers richer context and faster results.
The core four SaaS skills and when to find a co-founder
Startups For the Rest of Us
November 18, 2025
Business models
8
Hiring & recruitment
7
Product-market fit
6
Missing any of sales, marketing, product, or development dooms most SaaS startups.
Willing to learn the gaps yourself? You probably don't need a co-founder.
Enterprise customers will keep changing deals — price the hassle in from the start.