What's New

See the latest Trusted Library digests, grouped by the week they were added.

What's New

See the latest Trusted Library digests, grouped by the week they were added.

1 December 2025

This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and founder stories, with new digests from Matthew Volkwyn, Rob Walling, and Starter Story. Highlights include Earning more doesn't stop you going broke — ratios do AI still can't handle the last 10–20% of real application complexity

Showing 59 digests for 1 December 2025.

Processes & SOPs

YouTube

The EOS issues-solving track: identify, discuss, solve

EOS Worldwide December 5, 2025


Processes & SOPs 9
Management 6
  • Most teams debate symptoms, never reaching the actual root cause.
  • Prioritise only the top three issues blocking your organisation.
  • Making any decision beats waiting for the perfect one.

Processes & SOPs

YouTube

How to document and operationalise your core business processes

EOS Worldwide December 5, 2025


Processes & SOPs 10
Business operating systems 6
  • Document only the 20% of steps that drive 80% of results
  • No process exceptions — visionaries and top performers must comply too
  • Consistency requires training, measuring, and continuously updating processes

Management

YouTube

Quarterly conversations: a lightweight check-in tool for managers

EOS Worldwide December 5, 2025


Management 9
Business operating systems 6
  • No forms — honest conversation beats documentation every time
  • The 555 covers core values, roles, and quarterly rocks
  • One quarterly check-in keeps alignment, accountability, and engagement intact

Identity & self-belief

Podcast

No one is truly self-made: Stoic philosophy on success and virtue

The Daily Stoic December 5, 2025


Identity & self-belief 7
Resilience & grit 6
Relationships & family 5
  • Every great achiever — from Zeno to Schwarzenegger — was made by others.
  • Stoic 'circles of concern' means caring beyond what you control.
  • AI can't replace wisdom: experience is what catches confident wrong answers.

Physical & cognitive performance

YouTube

Lessons from Charles Poliquin and other mentors on movement and strength

Tim Ferriss December 5, 2025


Physical & cognitive performance 8
Physical health & longevity 6
  • Poliquin's regret: he wished he'd trained flexibility far sooner
  • Trace ideas to their source — the backwards sled came from Finnish loggers
  • Low-volume ankle work done consistently beat years of high-effort rehab

Physical & cognitive performance

YouTube

The neuroscience of habit formation and breaking

Andrew Huberman December 4, 2025


Physical & cognitive performance 9
Productivity & habits 7
  • Why anchoring habits to brain states beats fixed clock times
  • The post-habit window is the only reliable way to break bad habits
  • Sleep consolidates habits — neglect phase three and nothing sticks

Case studies

Podcast

How OnlyFans scaled to $7 billion with 42 employees

Masters of Scale December 4, 2025


Case studies 9
Business models 8
Processes & SOPs 7
  • $7B revenue, 42 employees — $37M revenue per head
  • Built-in monetization from day one is why creators chose OnlyFans
  • Fully AI accounts banned; human authenticity is the platform's moat

Copywriting

YouTube

Masterclass with Copywriting Legend | David Deutsch

Matthew Volkwyn December 4, 2025


Copywriting 9
Market research 7
AI tools & automation 6

Identity & self-belief

YouTube

How much your dream is worth when others want you to change it

Brendon Burchard December 4, 2025


Identity & self-belief 9
Case studies 7
Resilience & grit 6
  • A $2M publisher demanded a full rewrite — he said no
  • Depth and obsession separate breakthrough work from mediocrity
  • One person's belief can be enough to keep going

Case studies

YouTube

Build a portfolio of niche health apps by solving your own problems

Starter Story December 4, 2025


Case studies 10
MVP & prototyping 8
Niche selection 7
  • Three niche health apps reached $120K ARR in under a year.
  • Shared audience across all apps turns each launch into warm cross-sells.
  • Each app is a practice rep — skill compounds faster than any single bet.

Prompt engineering

YouTube

AI-generated YouTube thumbnails for $0.12 using a five-step prompt system

Dylan Davis December 4, 2025


Prompt engineering 9
Content marketing 6
  • Let AI research best practices and write its own image prompts
  • A prompt improver turns a rough brief into a reusable project instruction
  • Gemini app vs AI Studio: watermarks vs pay-per-use at $0.12 per image

Case studies

YouTube

How Care Village grew from a dream into a sustainable orphanage in South Africa

EOS Worldwide December 4, 2025


Case studies 9
Processes & SOPs 6
  • Government subsidies cover less than half the cost per child.
  • Smaller family units replacing institutional dorms with one carer per six kids.
  • On-site trade centre targets accredited diesel mechanics training for employment.

Copywriting

YouTube

How cognitive load in your messaging is costing you customers

StoryBrand With Donald Miller December 4, 2025


Copywriting 9
Conversion rate optimisation 6
  • The confused mind always says no — clarity drives orders
  • Clever copy adds cognitive weight that customers refuse to carry
  • Three words beat a book: simplicity wins every competitive market

Resilience & grit

YouTube

Why fear of losing is the real reason you're not winning

GaryVee December 4, 2025


Resilience & grit 10
Identity & self-belief 7
Goal setting 5
  • Fear of being seen to fail is why most people never start.
  • TikTok Shop and live selling work even with zero followers.
  • Renting beats buying when homeownership drains liquidity and kills flexibility.

Founder interviews

Podcast

How Jane Wurwand of Dermalogica advises early-stage founders on focus and community

How I Built This with Guy Raz December 4, 2025


Founder interviews 10
Niche selection 8
Community building 6
  • Tell, don't sell — education creates demand better than marketing.
  • Stay narrow: own one category before expanding product lines.
  • Community is often the real product; fitness, food, and underwear all prove it.

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