8 December 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and marketing, with new digests from Matthew Volkwyn, Starter Story, and Founders. Highlights include Customer acquisition costs have risen 3–5x, making email copy far less valuable No coding knowledge needed — AI tools can ship a real App Store product.
Showing 52 digests for 8 December 2025.
Why copywriters are losing clients and how video copy fixes it
Matthew Volkwyn
December 14, 2025
Copywriting
9
Prospecting & outreach
6
Customer acquisition costs have risen 3–5x, making email copy far less valuable
Business owners' top priority is now growing a qualified audience, not email lists
Video copy is the highest-demand copywriting skill — and most copywriters lack it
From zero code to $17K/month: one college student's vibe-coded app
Starter Story
December 14, 2025
Case studies
10
MVP & prototyping
8
Growth hacking
8
No coding knowledge needed — AI tools can ship a real App Store product.
A 'gotcha moment' built into the idea determines whether creatives convert.
Influencer deals with view guarantees and phone calls beat passive outreach.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Bruce Springsteen's life and work: obsession, depression, and what actually matters
Founders
December 14, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Work-life balance
8
Resilience & grit
7
Getting everything you want professionally can still leave you empty
Unresolved childhood trauma will follow you until you stop running
Life trumps art — Springsteen learned this only after decades of work
Three go-to-market mistakes killing SaaS founder growth
TK Kader
December 14, 2025
Niche selection
9
Copywriting
8
Pitching investors
5
If Salesforce could claim your messaging, rewrite it immediately.
Positioning must answer the competitive question before any demo.
A tight ICP unlocks positioning and messaging — not the reverse.
Quarterly in-person sprints that keep distributed teams connected
How I Work
December 14, 2025
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
5
Sporadic office days don't build connection — purposeful gatherings do
One quarterly 2–3 day sprint sustains team bonds for months
Atlassian optimises for the remote person, even when others are in-office
Four business wins from 2025 you can replicate
KeyPersonOfInfluence
December 14, 2025
Growth hacking
9
Fundraising & VC
7
MVP & prototyping
6
Turn agency intellectual property into a funded SaaS startup
Climb the podcast pyramid to reach million-view shows
Daily short-form content replaced hundreds of thousands in ad spend
AI tools & automation
Podcast
How OpenAI Codex is redefining the software engineering team
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
December 14, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
AI strategy & adoption
7
Long-term planning
6
Human review speed, not model intelligence, is the real AGI bottleneck.
Sora Android app shipped by 2-3 engineers in 28 days, became #1 in App Store.
Any agent that uses a computer should be a coding agent at its core.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
What CEOs know about job security that most professionals don't
Dr. Grace Lee
December 13, 2025
Identity & self-belief
10
Resilience & grit
8
Delegation
5
External structures — jobs, titles, employers — are not designed to protect you
Skills have an expiration date; the ability to create value does not
Defending your position shrinks influence; expanding beyond your role secures your future
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Building high-converting landing pages with AI: a six-step system
Dylan Davis
December 13, 2025
AI tools & automation
10
MVP & prototyping
7
Scraping real brand guidelines beats prompting AI for design every time.
Switch from chat to Cursor after two iterations to preserve model quality.
Netlify CLI lets AI deploy your site without you touching the terminal.
Founder interviews
YouTube
How 25 years of serial entrepreneurship taught Matt Hagger to embrace failure
EO
December 13, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
7
Being early can make you an R&D lab for better-timed rivals.
Failure is feedback — the kindergarten mindset keeps you returning.
Creativity genius drops from 98% at age five to 2% by thirty.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Stop Blaming Others: Self-Accountability Is the Only Path Forward
GaryVee
December 13, 2025
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Consuming fear-based negativity is a choice you can stop making.
Blaming others repackages unhappiness without resolving its source.
Reduce toxic inputs and own your failures to reclaim agency.
How Olivia Nuzzi processed public shame and personal failure
The Daily Stoic
December 13, 2025
Post-mortems
8
Resilience & grit
7
Mental health & wellbeing
5
Big failures are the endpoint of many small, ignored compromises
Shamelessness is now a survival strategy — and why she rejected it
How a journalist's trained compartmentalizing made her personally blind
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Six profitable AI businesses to start in 2026
Dan Martell
December 12, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
Business models
7
AI tools & automation
6
AI governance consulting pays $50–100K/month because compliance is non-negotiable
Sell to high-income buyers who already have budgets and value time over money
AI teaches you the skills — no degree or certification needed to start
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic lessons on character, resilience, and wisdom from history's greats
The Daily Stoic
December 12, 2025
Resilience & grit
10
Identity & self-belief
7
Freedom is internal — no one can take what's inside your mind
Amor fati: Edison lost his factory and called it a spectacle worth watching
Keep a commonplace book so wisdom is ready before the crisis hits
Designing offices people want to visit: lessons from Gensler's co-CEOs
Masters of Scale
December 11, 2025
Vision & mission
9
Management
7
Automation & tools
6
Why offices must be destinations, not obligations, post-COVID
Co-leadership works when trust replaces hierarchy at every level
Buildings cause 40% of carbon — Gensler is redesigning the materials