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.
Why relevance beats followers in the algorithm-driven attention economy
GaryVee
February 12, 2026
Growth hacking
9
Conversion rate optimisation
7
Retention & loyalty
5
Algorithms now reward creative relevance, not follower count.
Top organic posts outperform paid AB testing by a wide margin.
Live social shopping is a $10B market most retailers are ignoring.
Dan Harris and Ryan Holiday on wisdom, delay, and the pursuit of virtue
The Daily Stoic
February 12, 2026
Motivation
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Wisdom emerges from sustained practice, not talent or luck.
Socrates' trial shows high intelligence can coexist with poor judgment.
Memento mori turns mortality awareness into daily clarity and urgency.
How to turn content and community into a sustainable product business
How I Built This with Guy Raz
February 12, 2026
Business models
9
Content marketing
8
Community building
6
YouTube audiences and product buyers are often entirely different customers.
Print magazine growth on a shoestring: three-layer strategy for parents and kids.
Reframe slow baking as the product, not the friction — then host events.
Five levels of persuasive writing from features to storytelling
Joanna Wiebe
February 12, 2026
Copywriting
9
Closing techniques
7
Lead with reader benefits, not product features, to pass the six-second test.
Cognitive biases and identity-driven language shape decisions before people consciously decide.
Master persuaders hide all five levels invisibly inside a single human story.
How to run a board meeting that builds trust, not smoke screens
The Science of Scaling
February 12, 2026
Communication
9
Pitching investors
8
Automation & tools
5
Boards see through spin every time — own the miss instead.
Send the deck 24 hours early; spend 90 seconds, not 10 minutes, presenting.
AI can now surface real close/loss reasons, removing human bias from board decks.
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
How AI is reshaping software engineering and the startup economy
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
February 12, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
Business models
7
Management
5
At OpenAI, engineers manage agent fleets — not write code
Most AI deployments fail from top-down mandates with no grassroots adoption
Build for where models are going, not where they are today
Influencer & partnerships
YouTube
Why micro-influencers beat celebrities and how to run profitable campaigns
Neil Patel
February 11, 2026
Influencer & partnerships
10
Content marketing
6
Mega-influencers lose money 59% of the time — micro-influencers don't
Scripting creators kills performance; brief goals, not words
A tiered payment model lets you test cheap and scale winners
How Cloudflare Built a Self-Reinforcing Cybersecurity Empire
Business Breakdowns
February 11, 2026
Origin stories
9
Business models
8
AI strategy & adoption
5
Cloudflare's single global network intercepts all traffic, creating compounding scale advantages.
A freemium flywheel converts long-tail users into high-margin enterprise contracts.
AI inference, zero-trust security, and a developer platform open three new growth frontiers.
CEOs Must Live Their Core Values or the Company Crumbles
Cameron Herold
February 11, 2026
Culture building
9
Identity & self-belief
6
CEOs who break their own core values destroy them company-wide.
Chronic lateness simultaneously violates multiple stated company values.
End meetings five minutes early to make punctuality structurally guaranteed.
How Vikash built a $12K/month Photoshop plugin using customer pain as content fuel
Starter Story
February 11, 2026
Case studies
10
Content marketing
9
Customer discovery
7
Low-view YouTube videos convert customers better than viral ones
Four touch points turn customer support into a content goldmine
Google ranks YouTube tutorials ahead of blog posts — free SEO arbitrage
Founder interviews
YouTube
LayerZero: building blockchain's internet layer from first principles
EO
February 11, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Fundraising & VC
5
Connecting all blockchains the way TCP/IP connected isolated computers.
$38 billion processed in one month — 5.5x Western Union's volume.
No pedigree, no Stanford: first founders with both a16z and Sequoia co-leading.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Leaving a 12-year identity behind: Dom Price on what comes after quitting
How I Work
February 11, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Management
7
Resilience & grit
6
Why clarity rarely arrives before you quit — only after.
AI productivity gains are meaningless if teams just fill time with meetings.
Leaders who admit "I don't know" outperform those who fake certainty.
Physical & cognitive performance
YouTube
How ketosis, fasting, and mood profiling drive peak mental performance
Tim Ferriss
February 11, 2026
Physical & cognitive performance
9
Deep work & focus
7
Productivity & habits
5
Ketosis outperforms SSRIs for mood stabilization, no peaks or troughs
Your innate affect profile determines which mood levers actually work
Fasted zone two cardio cuts negative affect without dampening positive emotion
Founder interviews
YouTube
Jordan Jonas on wilderness survival, Siberian nomads, and building resilience
Tim Ferriss
February 11, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
8
Relationships & family
6
Why fat — not protein — is the true bottleneck of wilderness survival
Years with Siberian nomads made Alone Season 6 feel like a normal trip
Purpose that can't be taken from you: lessons from genocide survivors and a dying father
Super Bowl ads, cultural risk, and what makes a brand statement land
Masters of Scale
February 10, 2026
Branding
10
Paid ads
8
Resilience & grit
5
Most Super Bowl ads failed because brands tried to please everyone.
Bad Bunny's authentic halftime show was a strategic win for the NFL globally.
Joy is a choice — and in dark times, choosing it is resistance.