9 February 2026
This week's additions focus on mindset, marketing, and strategy, with new digests from Matthew Volkwyn, Rob Walling, and TK Kader. Highlights include Business owners pay for decisions offloaded, not words written AI is the solution space — build what customers already wanted, now possible.
Showing 43 digests for 9 February 2026.
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How to raise your copywriting rates by solving bleeding neck problems
Matthew Volkwyn
February 15, 2026
Prospecting & outreach
9
Pricing psychology
8
Copywriting
6
Business owners pay for decisions offloaded, not words written
The anchor price you negotiate first sets your ceiling forever
Low-rate clients trap you in a cycle that blocks better deals
Building AI Startups in 2026: Three Categories, One Worth Betting On
Rob Walling
February 15, 2026
Business models
10
Product-market fit
8
Niche selection
7
AI is the solution space — build what customers already wanted, now possible.
AI for experts beats muggles: imperfect AI survives when the user can fix errors.
Target 3–10x value gains; anything less won't change buyer behaviour.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Five SaaS agent ideas for mid-market account executives in 2026
TK Kader
February 15, 2026
AI tools & automation
10
Prospecting & outreach
7
MVP & prototyping
6
Simple SaaS is dying — agents that do the work are winning
Mid-market AEs pay with commission money, no budget approval needed
Five distinct agents map to every stage of the AE deal cycle
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Seven books worth reading for a better, wiser life
The Daily Stoic
February 15, 2026
Resilience & grit
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Why happiness is incremental, not a dramatic transformation
Character determines fate more than college or career choices
Spending and giving now beats accumulating wealth for later
Turning a creative passion into a sustainable business
KeyPersonOfInfluence
February 15, 2026
Growth hacking
9
Business models
8
Community building
7
Only 3–5% of any community will ever buy from you
Secure high-paying corporate gigs before monetising your fanbase
Give ten times before you ask once from your community
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
CEO scaling in the AI era: lessons from HubSpot's Brian Halligan
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
February 15, 2026
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Long-term planning
7
Why 50% of C-level hires are gone within 18 months
Scaling flips the CEO job from 90% doing to 90% inspiring
Enterprise sales is the last white-collar job AI will replace
Five hidden criteria that determine your performance review rating
Dr. Grace Lee
February 14, 2026
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Executives grade on future capacity, not past performance.
Your ROM — value created vs. management energy consumed — matters more than results.
Waiting for your boss to write the review narrative is strategic negligence.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
How to use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini's second screen features
Dylan Davis
February 14, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
5
Repeated rewrites without canvas silently degrade AI quality over time
Highlight any paragraph for targeted edits — the rest stays untouched
Build shareable interactive tools in minutes, no code or setup needed
AI tools & automation
YouTube
How tiny startup teams beat companies 20x their size with automation
Y Combinator
February 14, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
8
Business models
6
4-person teams closing Fortune 500 deals against 100x larger competitors
Three automation patterns: AI teammate, shared source of truth, per-employee agents
Legion Health 4x'd revenue without hiring a single new ops person
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Stop managing time: start managing priorities
Cameron Herold
February 13, 2026
Productivity & habits
8
Delegation
7
Your to-do list has more hours than your week allows
Delegate 80% of your weekly hours before doing any work yourself
Parkinson's Law: without time constraints, every task expands to fill the day
Why small teams consistently outperform large ones
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
February 13, 2026
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
5
Social loafing causes average effort to drop as team size grows.
A peer team captain — not a manager — can partially counter the effect.
Google's return to small-team culture preceded its $100B profit milestone.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
20 AI tools to build a profitable service business without coding
Dan Martell
February 13, 2026
AI tools & automation
10
Automation & tools
7
Business models
6
Each tool maps directly to a sellable managed service with recurring revenue.
Clients pay for outcomes — the AI does the work in minutes, not hours.
Setup fee plus monthly retainer is the repeatable pricing model throughout.
Relationships & family
YouTube
The science of desire, love, and attachment explained
Andrew Huberman
February 12, 2026
Relationships & family
9
Mental health & wellbeing
5
Childhood attachment style reliably predicts adult romantic behaviour
Contempt — not conflict — is the strongest predictor of divorce
Synchronising nervous systems, not just emotions, underlies lasting love
Content marketing
YouTube
How Dan Martell's media team turned organic content into a venture pipeline
Matthew Volkwyn
February 12, 2026
Content marketing
9
Processes & SOPs
8
Case studies
7
200M monthly organic views becomes venture deal flow — not just audience
Dan shoots three hours a week; a 2-3 month pipeline does the rest
Distil your methodology into AI prompts now or fall behind commodity content
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Four AI Capabilities That Crossed the Threshold in Six Months
Dylan Davis
February 12, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
Deep work & focus
5
A 5-week engineering project now works in one prompt.
Competitors gain months of advantage while you wait to retry.
Three triggers tell you exactly when to retest failed AI tasks.