5 January 2026
This week's additions focus on mindset, marketing, and leadership, with new digests from Matthew Volkwyn, Starter Story, and Superwall. Highlights include Energy is drained by broken pillars, not a missing secret. Launch to a private waitlist first — never let the public buy on day one
Showing 56 digests for 5 January 2026.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
How to Get Real Things Done: Energy, Drive, and the Three-Circle Method
Matthew Volkwyn
January 11, 2026
Productivity & habits
9
Work-life balance
8
Resilience & grit
6
Energy is drained by broken pillars, not a missing secret.
Score relationships, health, wealth; fix the lowest score first.
Start one habit, stop two drains, repeat every 30 days.
Content marketing
YouTube
How to go from zero to $60K MRR in two months using the Kleo launch playbook
Starter Story
January 11, 2026
Content marketing
10
Email marketing
9
MVP & prototyping
5
Launch to a private waitlist first — never let the public buy on day one
10+ nurture emails before launch built the trust that drove $30K in four days
LinkedIn live webinars with a demo and live pitch closed what content alone could not
How two founders built a 300,000-comment Instagram growth machine
Superwall
January 11, 2026
Growth hacking
9
Copywriting
7
300,000 Instagram comments drove 7,000 clicks for one campaign
Transparent founder-angle comments outperform covert promotional ones
60 phones today, scaling to 1,000 devices and 21 million comments monthly
Six-step go-to-market strategy framework for SaaS founders
TK Kader
January 11, 2026
Market research
9
Funnels
6
Execution without strategy wastes money regardless of who you hire.
Niche segmentation and competitive positioning must precede any outreach.
Channel mastery beats scattered tactics — consistency drives compounding growth.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
26 stoic rules to navigate uncertainty in 2026
The Daily Stoic
January 11, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
7
Focus on what you control: your responses, values, and actions—not external events.
Cut the inessential, wake early, journal nightly, and challenge yourself regularly.
Practice daily good, ask for help, and detach your worth from unpredictable outcomes.
Influencer & partnerships
YouTube
How to get on bigger podcasts and build influential partnerships
KeyPersonOfInfluence
January 11, 2026
Influencer & partnerships
9
B2C sales
7
Start on tiny podcasts and earn your way up level by level.
Private dinners with one anchor guest rapidly fill with high-value contacts.
AI rewards high agency generalists — not narrow specialists.
AI tools & automation
Podcast
Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 11, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Automation & tools
6
Start with high human control; earn trust before granting agent autonomy.
Non-determinism on both input and output breaks traditional product assumptions.
Pain is the new moat: iteration cycles build knowledge competitors can't replicate.
How Baby2Baby scaled disaster relief to serve children in crisis
Masters of Scale
January 10, 2026
Case studies
9
Scaling infrastructure
6
Business models
5
Serving partner organisations, not families directly, is what unlocks scale.
14-year partner network let Baby2Baby activate disaster response within hours.
California's diaper tax repealed after relentless lobbying — 25 states still to go.
Replace the marketing funnel with a playground of positive experiences
Daniel Priestley
January 10, 2026
Funnels
10
Content marketing
8
Buyers now need 8–12 touch points — pressure-funnels no longer work
Three buyer zones (problem, process, prize) each need different content
The clinical method (symptoms, causes, treatment, prognosis) structures problem-aware content
Seven work habits that signal an employee mindset to leadership
Dr. Grace Lee
January 10, 2026
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Busyness signals reliability, not leadership readiness — they're not the same.
Escalating problems without a recommendation just escalates the thinking.
Perfectionism is fear disguised; senior leaders want quality decisions under pressure.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
How to extract and distribute expert knowledge using AI
Dylan Davis
January 10, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
7
Communication
5
One expert's 3x AI efficiency spread to 12 people = 36x leverage
Three-phase system: extract from expert, package into system prompt, distribute
Claude skills run autonomously in any conversation — no user setup required
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Brainwashing, resistance, and the manipulation we ignore
The Daily Stoic
January 10, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Nobody — not even the most resilient POWs — is immune to manipulation.
The manipulation you fear is a decoy; social pressure shapes you daily.
Disagreeableness and humane stoicism are the most underrated resistance tools.
Why January is the wrong time for personal planning
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
January 9, 2026
Goal setting
8
Work-life balance
6
January's winter energy actively works against meaningful personal planning
Spring equinox — not New Year — is the natural reset point
Two boxes matter most: annual rituals and one 90-day relationship focus
Founder interviews
YouTube
Epidemic Sound CEO on AI, value chains, and building a $1.4B company
Silicon Valley Girl
January 9, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Business models
8
Delegation
6
Full music rights ownership — not licensing — created instant product-market fit.
Map value chains to find leverage: four broadcaster meetings unlocked 5,000 editors.
Ask why three times before deploying AI; root-cause thinking is the scarce resource.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
AI tools ranked for business value and income potential in 2026
Dan Martell
January 9, 2026
AI tools & automation
10
Automation & tools
5
Only a handful of AI tools actually generate income or automate core processes
Zapier, ChatGPT, and Granola earn S tier — every business should use them
Apple Intelligence earns F tier; most tools sit in niche B or conditional C