2 March 2026
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and marketing, with new digests from Matthew Volkwyn, Ryan Deiss, and Starter Story. Highlights include Join the best instead of competing against them from day one Growth consumes cash — scaling too fast kills profitable businesses
Showing 56 digests for 2 March 2026.
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How to make money online: skills first, business second
Matthew Volkwyn
March 8, 2026
Prospecting & outreach
8
Business models
7
Growth hacking
6
Join the best instead of competing against them from day one
Attention and sales are the only two skills that always pay
Build a business only after skills income reaches $20-25k/month
Seven common business advice myths that hurt scaling companies
Ryan Deiss
March 8, 2026
Business models
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
Cash flow management
6
Growth consumes cash — scaling too fast kills profitable businesses
Build systems so B-players succeed; A-players will then seek you out
Culture is the result of shared wins, not a goal you manage toward
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How one founder reached $10K MRR by selling through connectors
Starter Story
March 8, 2026
Prospecting & outreach
9
Influencer & partnerships
8
Bootstrapping
5
Skip cold outreach — sell through people who already own your customers' trust.
Two Upwork coaches drove most of Lancer's growth to $10K MRR.
Any platform with tedious manual work is a candidate for AI automation.
How SpaceX built the world's most dominant launch company
Founders
March 8, 2026
Business models
9
Case studies
7
Culture building
5
98% of rocket cost was process waste, not materials
Vertical integration, standardisation, and reusability form an unbreakable flywheel
The culture is the real moat — tactics alone can't be copied
Content marketing
YouTube
Three-pillar SaaS marketing framework: ICP, manifesto, Broadway show
TK Kader
March 8, 2026
Content marketing
9
Funnels
7
Niche selection
6
Why AI alone can't set your marketing strategy — human judgment is irreplaceable
The Broadway show: a three-week execution cycle that turns messaging into pipeline
Real client data showing 53% activation rates and 43% LinkedIn conversion
How to prepare your team for AI adoption without losing trust
How I Work
March 8, 2026
Management
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Automation & tools
5
Giving AI licenses without support actively destroys productivity, not boosts it.
The one question every leader must ask: how do I get my people AI-ready?
Change leads — not IT — are the real key to successful team AI adoption.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
AI strengthens your weaknesses without touching your strengths
KeyPersonOfInfluence
March 8, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Top performers gain almost nothing from AI on their strengths
Two-week employees using AI outperformed six-month veterans
AI closes skill gaps — double down on what makes you world-class
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Applied Intuition built a $15B AI company by staying quiet
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
March 8, 2026
Founder interviews
9
Business models
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Applied Intuition never spent a dollar of its raised capital in 10 years.
AI's biggest real-world impact will be in farming, mining, and trucking — not software.
Founders with narrow life experience often lack the taste to build great companies.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Five cognitive biases that determine who gets promoted
Dr. Grace Lee
March 7, 2026
Identity & self-belief
8
Communication
7
Long-term planning
6
Working harder cannot break a rigid leadership narrative about you.
Appearing constantly busy signals you lack capacity for a higher role.
Promotions bet on future trajectory, not past performance.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
How to stop being the bottleneck in your AI workflow
Dylan Davis
March 7, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
10
Processes & SOPs
6
You hold context AI can't see — that's the real bottleneck.
File-based tools like Claude Code let AI process 50+ files unsupervised.
Binary checklists let AI quality-check its own outputs without you.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic strategies for mastering emotions without suppressing them
The Daily Stoic
March 7, 2026
Resilience & grit
10
Identity & self-belief
7
Anger signals you're focused on something outside your control.
Anxiety is self-inflicted suffering added on top of events.
Perseverance is the will that never yields across years of setbacks.
ASML: Competing with Moore's Law
Business Breakdowns
March 6, 2026
Origin stories
9
Business models
7
Competitive analysis
5
ASML owns 100% of extreme ultraviolet lithography; 25 years in EUV development paid off.
Supply chain relationships, not vertical integration, are the deepest competitive moat.
Price collaboration with customers prevents incentives to build alternative semiconductor tech.
Scaling your business by strengthening your customers
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
March 6, 2026
Business models
9
Retention & loyalty
7
Help your customers grow and your own revenue follows.
Leader Systems scaled from $50M to $1B in eight years.
Microsoft's partner investment model proves the same principle.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
How AI-native organizations build competitive advantage and scale
EO
March 6, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
Business models
7
Identity & self-belief
5
AI hurt struggling entrepreneurs and helped high-performers — judgment is everything.
Embed AI in the product, not just workflows, to scale without headcount.
The new strategic edge: allocating intelligence across humans and models.
How mob thinking erodes shared reality and civic norms
The Daily Stoic
March 6, 2026
Communication
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Resilience & grit
5
Trump didn't change minds — he changed what people felt safe saying aloud
A J6 rioter who pled guilty still blamed Antifa for the attack
Cruelty travels faster than virtue on every short-form platform