12 January 2026
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Matthew Volkwyn, Rob Walling, and Ryan Deiss. Highlights include A real goal is something you want but have no idea how to achieve 48% of founders found their idea at their day job
Showing 56 digests for 12 January 2026.
AI agents will decide what you buy — brand is your only defence
GaryVee
January 13, 2026
Branding
9
AI strategy & adoption
7
Business models
5
When AI orders for you, nameless brands lose by default
Platform middlemen capture all value from generic consumer intent
Spend 50–100 hours on AI research before it disrupts your business
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
IRS Form 1095-C: how to code lines 14, 15, and 16 correctly
HR Party of One
January 13, 2026
Compliance & regulation
9
Blank line 16 tells the IRS you failed ACA reporting.
Three separate criteria — MEC, affordability, minimum value — must all be met.
Code 1A is the fast lane; 2C confirms the employee was actually enrolled.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stoic circle of control: focus your energy where it counts
The Daily Stoic
January 13, 2026
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
8
Productivity & habits
5
Your mind is the only thing truly within your control.
Energy spent on uncontrollables is pure waste — redirect it.
Shifting from 50/50 to 60/40 focus is a decisive advantage.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to review your year without guilt and build forward momentum
Brendon Burchard
January 12, 2026
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Your one job: summon the best of yourself, regardless of circumstance.
Good character ripples forward invisibly — you underestimate your year.
Self-awareness grows from how you show up, not from reflection alone.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: specific knowledge, authenticity, and defining success
Business Book Club
January 12, 2026
Identity & self-belief
9
Niche selection
8
Goal setting
7
Work that feels like play to you is your competitive moat.
Copying advice without a filter is as dangerous as ignoring it.
Define your own success before society defines it for you.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Business Book Club: how a founder used books to exit in five years
Business Book Club
January 12, 2026
Founder interviews
9
Productivity & habits
7
Business models
5
Read the top 3 books on any problem to get 80% there
Zero experience founders exited to a major health company in five years
Every guest picks the one book that most changed their business
How to spot the identity blind spots holding you back as a leader
Coaching for Leaders
January 12, 2026
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Identity mismatches — not skill gaps — silently derail leaders at role transitions.
Small consistent behaviour shifts move identity faster than insight or willpower alone.
Auditing your calendar exposes what your identity is already filtering out.
Why Most Billboards Waste Money and What Works Instead
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
January 12, 2026
90% of billboards fail; small businesses must make offers, not impressions.
Cute and clever copy wins awards but kills revenue — clarity wins.
Zero cognitive load, short text, and repetition beat creative novelty every time.
Founder interviews
Podcast
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: how two baristas pioneered third-wave coffee in the US
How I Built This with Guy Raz
January 12, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Business models
6
MVP & prototyping
5
Walked uninvited into the US's top restaurant and won their first account
Private equity lasted 52 days before a buyout funded by Hamdi Ulukaya
Treating coffee as a culinary spice, not a commodity, unlocked chef clients
Resilience & grit
Podcast
What young men get wrong about Stoicism — and what it's really for
The Daily Stoic
January 12, 2026
Resilience & grit
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Grifters hijack Stoicism by stripping out justice and compassion
Marcus Aurelius wrote about the common good roughly 80 times
Real Stoicism demands widening your circle of concern, not shrinking it
Mental health & wellbeing
YouTube
Guided meditation: permission to do nothing
Tim Ferriss
January 12, 2026
Mental health & wellbeing
7
Real rest comes from stopping effort, not applying a technique.
Inner peace is already present — stillness just lets you notice it.
An 8-minute reset that recharges by doing less, not more.