23 February 2026
This week's additions focus on mindset, ai, and marketing, with new digests from Matthew Volkwyn, Rob Walling, and Starter Story. Highlights include Calculate an internal hourly rate to sanity-check every offer before the call. Early AI ad costs are low — the window closes fast
Showing 59 digests for 23 February 2026.
Content marketing
YouTube
ACA Affordability Safe Harbors: W-2, Rate of Pay, and Federal Poverty Line
HR Party of One
February 24, 2026
Content marketing
9
Copywriting
5
Rate of Pay safe harbor works year-round; W-2 method only after year-end.
Federal Poverty Line method guarantees compliance but requires higher employer contributions.
Correct 1095-C Line 16 safe harbor code is the primary IRS penalty shield.
Six small systems that consistently save time each week
Layla at ProcessDriven
February 24, 2026
Processes & SOPs
9
Delegation
6
Productivity & habits
5
Internal forms cut delegation from 10 minutes to 1 minute.
One phone shortcut eliminated an hour of weekly studio setup.
Time tracking data let a delegate reclaim 12.5 hours per week.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Tim McGraw on finding his father and choosing hope over resentment
Tim Ferriss
February 24, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Relationships & family
5
Discovering your dad is a baseball star you already admired
Tug offered $300/year for silence — Tim demanded truth instead
Absent fathers can give hope without ever being present
Physical & cognitive performance
YouTube
Quieting the ruminative mind and escaping the self-help trap
Tim Ferriss
February 24, 2026
Physical & cognitive performance
8
Relationships & family
6
Resilience & grit
5
One day of TMS plus an old antibiotic eliminated severe OCD rumination
Self-help becomes a trap when you polish the self instead of living
You can't say no until you have big enough yeses worth defending
Physical & cognitive performance
YouTube
Young blood, organ clocks, and the biology of brain rejuvenation
Andrew Huberman
February 23, 2026
Physical & cognitive performance
8
Physical health & longevity
6
Young blood proteins reactivate aged brain stem cells and restore memory
Your organs age at different rates — measuring the gap predicts disease
Sprint exercise releases liver factors that specifically benefit the brain
Cash flow management
Podcast
Profit First: the bank account system that forces profitability
Business Book Club
February 23, 2026
Cash flow management
10
Processes & SOPs
6
Taking profit first — not last — changes everything about spending
Separate bank accounts remove temptation better than willpower ever could
Start with 1% profit allocation; quarterly payouts make the habit stick
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Eight daily habits to build momentum and escape reactive living
Dan Martell
February 23, 2026
Productivity & habits
10
Deep work & focus
7
Resilience & grit
6
Win tomorrow by planning and shutting down the night before.
Easy choices create a hard life — choosing hard builds identity.
One North Star metric, measured daily, drives all goal progress.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Can movies rebuild your attention span in a distracted world?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
February 23, 2026
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Phones structurally weaken your ability to finish — not just start — films
The 30-minute rule: read reviews mid-film to retrain your reward system
AI coding agents are useful but narrow; the exponential-takeoff narrative is wrong
Founder interviews
YouTube
Selling Starter Story: Pat Walls Closes the Chapter with HubSpot
Starter Story
February 23, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Exit strategy
6
Obsession that built Starter Story gradually stripped away the founder's freedom.
HubSpot acquired the company; team, mission, and brand remain unchanged.
Business became sellable only after it stopped depending on its founder.
The three-phase messaging campaign: curiosity, enlightenment, commitment
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
February 23, 2026
Most businesses open with enlightenment before earning curiosity
Survival-linked soundbites are the only way to stop a scrolling brain
Build the messaging campaign first; logistics follow
How a solo founder built a 44M-view-per-month UGC machine
Superwall
February 23, 2026
Growth hacking
9
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Prove formats go viral yourself before handing them to creators.
75–80% three-second retention predicts virality — given enough reps.
Performance-based CPM at $1–2 beats paid ads for low-ARPU social apps.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Jim McKelvey co-founded Square after losing a $2,000 sale
How I Built This with Guy Raz
February 23, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Business models
7
MVP & prototyping
5
The payment system excluded any merchant with under $100k in sales.
Listing 140 failure reasons turned VC pitches from combat into collaboration.
Amazon copied 3 of Square's 14 innovations — the other 11 destroyed them.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Winning the day: stoic discipline and the indifference of circumstances
The Daily Stoic
February 23, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
6
A 6 a.m. meeting reveals how winners actually attack the day.
Anger at circumstances is wasted energy — they simply don't care.
A lost Euripides play survives only because Marcus wrote it down.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How a chance encounter with Stephen Covey ended Steve Young's depression
Tim Ferriss
February 23, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
You dig your own hole — nobody else pushes you in.
Fear of finding out how good you are keeps you stuck.
One reframe on a plane turned depression into NFL MVP.