29 December 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Matthew Volkwyn, Rob Walling, and Starter Story. Highlights include Email gigs have dried up — funnel copy is where the money is SaaS revenue compounds so slowly it takes years, not months.
Showing 47 digests for 29 December 2025.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Mark Cuban on AI investing, vertical markets, and what stays human
Masters of Scale
December 30, 2025
Founder interviews
10
AI strategy & adoption
9
Business models
7
Vertical AI in stagnant industries beats competing with foundational models
IP is now your most undervalued moat — stop publishing it freely
Dead company patents are an overlooked arbitrage opportunity for AI training
Mastering Social Media SEO in 2026: Platforms, Search, and Discovery
Neil Patel
December 30, 2025
SEO
10
Content marketing
7
Instagram and YouTube process 10B+ daily searches — optimise there first.
Algorithms surface answers before intent forms; show outcome in first seconds.
On-platform transactions boost algorithmic reach; external links suppress it.
How to fire someone with empathy and without debate
Cameron Herold
December 30, 2025
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
5
Only two valid reasons to fire: culture fit or ROI on role.
A fixed script stops the conversation becoming a debate.
Fire at end of day — there is no good week to wait for.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Seven cheat codes for building success and energy in your 20s
Dan Martell
December 30, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Time management
8
Communication
6
5% of your decisions drive 95% of your results — ignore the rest.
Praising people in their absence builds trust faster than self-promotion.
Managing energy, not time, is what separates high output from burnout.
A goal-setting system that compounds: the 5 A's framework
Daniel Priestley
December 30, 2025
Goal setting
9
Long-term planning
7
Communication
6
Alignment expires every 90 days — re-enrol your team each quarter.
Suppressed blind spots cause the same problems to repeat indefinitely.
A $10k lead-gen asset can outperform a $1M property investment.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
When and how to compare AI models effectively
Dylan Davis
December 30, 2025
AI tools & automation
10
Content marketing
7
Automation & tools
6
80% of tasks don't need multi-model comparison at all
Never use the same model to review its own output — bias is real
Track winners per use case; re-test when new models are released
Organic social media is the last free distribution channel
GaryVee
December 30, 2025
Social media
9
Content marketing
6
Follower count no longer determines reach — content quality does
Organic social is the only free channel; every alternative costs money
This window closes when wearables replace phones and the feed resets
Small business fertility benefits: practical support without deep pockets
HR Party of One
December 30, 2025
Culture building
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Renaming leave policies to 'family leave' costs nothing but signals everything
Riders, FSAs, and third-party platforms extend support without raising premiums
Employees who feel like a burden during life transitions leave — celebrate them
Productivity & habits
Podcast
7 stoic habits to make this your best year yet
The Daily Stoic
December 30, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
5
Journaling stopped Kennedy escalating the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Memento mori sharpens priorities — death is already happening now.
Small daily gains compound more than annual resolutions ever do.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic discipline of control: separating what's yours from what isn't
The Daily Stoic
December 30, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Most suffering comes from fighting things outside your control
Epictetus: only opinions, choices, and responses are truly yours
Arguing with past events burns leverage you only have going forward
Relationships & family
YouTube
Men, masculinity, and the skills of relational health
Andrew Huberman
December 29, 2025
Relationships & family
8
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Stoicism and disconnection — not weakness — are killing men's health.
There is nothing harshness does that loving firmness doesn't do better.
The cure for addiction, loneliness, and male crisis is intimacy.
Product-market fit
YouTube
How to build a profitable AI startup from scratch in 2026
Silicon Valley Girl
December 29, 2025
Product-market fit
10
Niche selection
9
Pricing strategy
8
Engineer the outcome manually before building any product at all.
Avoid prompt wrappers — own the end-to-end vertical workflow instead.
Boring niche plus existing human services equals the 2026 opportunity.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Single-Purpose Notebooks for Creative Exploration
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 29, 2025
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
6
Use a dedicated notebook for one idea requiring extended thinking and serendipitous capture.
Focused cognitive context and ritual make notebooks superior to phones and digital tools.
Review weekly, carry one notebook per active problem, invest proportionally in quality.
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How creatives can scale their business with clearer messaging and DM sales
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
December 29, 2025
Prospecting & outreach
9
Content marketing
8
Niche selection
6
Narrowing your niche sharpens messaging and multiplies clients, not reduces them.
Turn Instagram DMs into a structured sales process using one keyword CTA.
Pricing promises too ambitiously deters leads — calibrate to where they start.
Brad Jacobs on raising capital, integrating acquisitions, and mastering your mind
Founders
December 29, 2025
Fundraising & VC
9
Resilience & grit
8
Business operating systems
8
Why your fuel source for drive determines how long it lasts
Hedge funds lie about patience — negotiate access before close
Five daily mental frameworks used to run eight billion-dollar companies