2 February 2026
This week's additions focus on mindset, marketing, and ai, with new digests from Matthew Volkwyn, Ryan Deiss, and Starter Story. Highlights include Accumulate real practice hours fast; theory alone never builds skill. Reframing around distributions fixed a stalled company in 60 days
Showing 61 digests for 2 February 2026.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
How to learn anything in months, not years: three core principles
Matthew Volkwyn
February 8, 2026
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
Goal setting
6
Accumulate real practice hours fast; theory alone never builds skill.
Periodic expert feedback redirects hours toward weaknesses that self-study misses.
Daily practice generates seven sleep cycles weekly, compounding long-term retention.
Long-term planning
YouTube
Five hard business lessons from a year of costly failures
Ryan Deiss
February 8, 2026
Long-term planning
8
Resilience & grit
6
Cash flow management
5
Reframing around distributions fixed a stalled company in 60 days
17 simultaneous initiatives completed two; five initiatives completed five
Your excuse for not acting is the exact reason you must
Building a $1.8M/year portfolio of 20 WordPress plugins
Starter Story
February 8, 2026
Case studies
9
Product-market fit
8
Content marketing
7
20 focused plugins for the same customer beats one big product
Organic search drove all growth — unique niches ranked immediately
Post-purchase emails and in-plugin banners multiply revenue per customer
Iteration & feedback loops
YouTube
Paywall design lessons from 4,500 app experiments
Superwall
February 8, 2026
Iteration & feedback loops
9
Conversion rate optimisation
8
Pricing strategy
6
No single paywall works everywhere — always start with a simple baseline
Design and packaging lift conversions more than price changes ever will
A three-step exit flow extracts more revenue before offering a discount
How to get 1,000 paying SaaS customers from scratch
TK Kader
February 8, 2026
Growth hacking
9
B2B sales
7
Pricing strategy
6
Selling strangers before scaling ads is the only proven path.
Charging money from day one filters out polite non-buyers fast.
Hiring an ad agency before finding message-market fit always fails.
AI tools & automation
Podcast
How to use AI as a personal shopping assistant to save money
How I Work
February 8, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
5
Perplexity beats ChatGPT for live product research and comparisons
Scheduled AI prompts can automate weekly price tracking for you
Find fresher discount codes via Perplexity instead of coupon sites
Automation & tools
YouTube
Five unfinished bridges every entrepreneur should complete
KeyPersonOfInfluence
February 8, 2026
Automation & tools
8
Productivity & habits
6
Unfinished projects drain energy; finishing them restores it instantly.
Your video testimonials, documented process, and personal story are already 95% done.
Breaking the time-for-money trap requires formalising knowledge into scalable IP.
AI tools & automation
Podcast
How a non-technical vibe coder landed a full-time AI-building job
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
February 8, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
AI strategy & adoption
7
Productivity & habits
5
Why spending 80% of your time planning beats prompting faster
Non-technical builders often outperform engineers by ignoring limits
Tech stack is irrelevant — taste, design, and judgment are the moat
GaryVee on social-first marketing and why traditional ads are losing
Masters of Scale
February 7, 2026
Growth hacking
9
Social media
9
AI tools & automation
6
41 targeted social ads outperform one unskippable Super Bowl spot.
Brands only went social-first when challengers like Liquid Death caused real pain.
AI ad stigma mirrors online dating in 2001 — it will vanish fast.
ChatGPT ads: the early-mover opportunity for businesses
Daniel Priestley
February 7, 2026
Paid ads
9
AI tools & automation
6
Branding
5
ChatGPT's data and memory make it more powerful than Google or Facebook ads.
Replace a fixed budget with an allowable cost per sale — then scale freely.
Personal-brand ads beat business-brand ads; that edge won't last forever.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to build real influence without compromising your integrity
Dr. Grace Lee
February 7, 2026
Identity & self-belief
9
Communication
7
Enter senior rooms as a diagnostician, not an approval-seeker.
Constant agreement signals redundancy — dissent is an asset of protection.
Intellectual gravity attracts; social currency is volatile and exhausting.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
AI browser agents: what works, what fails, and how to use them now
Dylan Davis
February 7, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
7
AI browser agents break after ~10 steps — structure tasks accordingly
Split complex tasks: use a chat AI to plan, a browser agent to execute
Admin data extraction, technical setups, and form filling work best today
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Diogenes the Cynic: philosophy, freedom, and radical self-sufficiency
The Daily Stoic
February 7, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Origin story
8
The homeless philosopher who challenged Alexander the Great face-to-face
True power means reducing what you need, not accumulating more
Stoicism descends directly from Cynicism — and can't deny it
AI tools & automation
YouTube
OpenClaw creator on local AI agents and the death of most apps
Y Combinator
February 7, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
AI strategy & adoption
7
A local agent can do anything your computer can do — cloud can't.
80% of apps just manage data; agents will replace them.
Own your memory: markdown files on your machine, no vendor lock-in.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Daily repetition of fundamentals is the key to mastering anything
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
February 6, 2026
Productivity & habits
10
Processes & SOPs
5
Why Scottie Scheffler grips a club for 20 minutes before every round
One great consistently outperforms three good players or hires
The daily huddle is the business equivalent of Hogan's fundamentals