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.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Seven things to stop doing to become more successful
Dan Martell
February 10, 2026
Productivity & habits
8
Outsourcing & delegation
7
Your inbox is a public to-do list — you owe no reply
80% done by someone else beats 100% done by you alone
Inability to unplug means you built a job, not a business
QSBS, exit multiples, and learning marketing: bootstrapper Q&A
Startups For the Rest of Us
February 10, 2026
Fundraising & VC
9
Unit economics
8
Growth hacking
7
C Corps unlock a $15M federal tax exemption on exit.
Profitability hurts exit multiples — growth is all acquirers care about.
Separate strategy from tactics to cut through marketing noise.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
How to use AI as an amplifier, not a delegator
Dylan Davis
February 10, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
Deep work & focus
6
Most AI users scored 17% lower than non-users in an Anthropic study
Delegators accept AI output; amplifiers extract learning alongside it
Four prompting tactics that compound your knowledge over time
How to Replace Traditional Online Courses With a Scalable Human Programme
Sunny Lenarduzzi
February 10, 2026
Business models
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Content marketing
6
AI commoditised information; human transformation is now the only defensible product.
Sell your first cohort before building anything — validation beats isolation.
Interviews with ideal clients fill your cohort without social media or ads.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Live Shopping, Collectibles, and Radical Accountability in 2026
GaryVee
February 10, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Motivation
8
Niche selection
7
Live shopping ($10B+ on Whatnot) mirrors social media in 2009.
AI eliminates information barriers; accountability is the only edge left.
NFTs recovering as collectors replace flippers; IP compounds in AI era.
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
Who Must Receive a 1095-C: Three Employee Groups Explained
HR Party of One
February 10, 2026
Compliance & regulation
9
Processes & SOPs
5
Terminated employees still get a 1095-C if full-time for one month.
Enrollment doesn't matter — the IRS cares about the offer, not acceptance.
Look-back method prevents eligibility from flipping for seasonal workers.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Justice and wisdom: why stoicism demands action, not acceptance
The Daily Stoic
February 10, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Communication
6
Focusing only on what's in your control makes you the centre of the universe
A humanities education is your best asset in an AI-dominated world
Reading is how you have conversations with the dead — Zeno's secret to wisdom
Business operating systems
Podcast
Decision quality over outcomes: lessons from Thinking in Bets
Business Book Club
February 9, 2026
Business operating systems
9
Goal setting
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Good decisions can still lose — stop judging process by outcome.
Assign probabilities before you start, not only in the post-mortem.
Lucky wins are a trap: differentiate skill from variance using a repeatable process.
How to connect better with remote colleagues using supercommunicator skills
Coaching for Leaders
February 9, 2026
Communication
9
Remote teams
8
Remote defaults to practical talk; leaders must deliberately invite emotional and social conversation.
Looping for understanding — paraphrase, then ask 'did I get that right?' — proves listening and builds trust.
Deep questions unlock identity and values without requiring heavy emotional labour from either party.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How to read AI news without being manipulated
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
February 9, 2026
Productivity & habits
8
Deep work & focus
6
Three named traps expose how AI journalism manipulates without lying.
Morning routines are technology escape hatches, not life-optimization systems.
Keep routines under 20 minutes with a clear off-ramp into actual work.
Reducing cognitive load in your marketing to win more customers
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
February 9, 2026
Copywriting
9
Conversion rate optimisation
8
The harder your message is to process, the fewer sales you make.
Every unnecessary concept on your website hands the reader a bowling ball.
Simple messaging wins elections — and it wins customers too.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Reed Hastings on building Netflix: from DVD mail-order to streaming giant
How I Built This with Guy Raz
February 9, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Business models
8
Culture building
7
Why Netflix nearly sold itself to Blockbuster for nothing in 2000
The keeper test: adequate performance earns a generous severance package
How a failed spinoff taught Reed Hastings the cost of unchallenged conviction
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Taking responsibility for your emotions and guarding your perceptions
The Daily Stoic
February 9, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
No one offends you without your own complicity, Epictetus says
Peace requires guarding the flood of impressions, not escaping it
Stillness while fully engaged is the real Stoic challenge