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.
How Formula One became a $70 billion global sport
Acquired
March 2, 2026
Origin stories
9
Business models
8
Exit strategy
6
Bernie Ecclestone seized TV rights no one valued — then they were worth billions
Liberty's cost cap transformed teams from money pits to $3.6bn assets
Drive to Survive turned F1's office politics into a global fandom reset
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Rewiring the mind: unlearning negative patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia
Andrew Huberman
March 2, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Mental health & wellbeing
7
Willpower fails because it fights the tendency — psychotherapy changes the tendency itself
The ego (roles, comparisons) is the source of ambition that produces success but not happiness
AI sycophancy and social media algorithms are measurably eroding distress tolerance and reality-testing
How to genuinely connect with people using the CUP framework
Brendon Burchard
March 2, 2026
Communication
9
Identity & self-belief
5
Shifting from 'here I am' to 'there you are' transforms every relationship.
Ask questions about them, lift the energy, praise effort — that's the system.
At scale, influence comes from delivering insight and issuing real challenge.
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Zach Yadegari built and sold Cal AI for tens of millions at 18
Brett Malinowski
March 2, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Growth hacking
7
Hiring & recruitment
5
Zero to $30M ARR in 18 months, sold to MyFitnessPal at 18
Paid ads creative is the entire strategy — not the targeting
Complementary co-founders with clear decision ownership beat friend teams
Five dysfunctions of a team: Lencioni's framework explained
Business Book Club
March 2, 2026
Management
10
Communication
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Why missing trust — not talent — kills most executive teams
Your department is not your most important team
Three tools to build self-awareness and accelerate trust
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Hiring ahead of the curve: a reverse-engineering framework
Cameron Herold
March 2, 2026
Hiring & recruitment
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Reactive hiring delays key hires by months and costs millions
A productive January hire requires recruiting to start in April
Map your org chart 12 months out, then reverse-engineer start dates
How to Measure Meeting Effectiveness with Five Key Metrics
Coaching for Leaders
March 2, 2026
Processes & SOPs
9
Communication
7
Meetings are the most important, least optimised product in organisations.
ROTI: anonymous 0-5 ratings on 10% of meetings expose design failures fast.
Efficiency cuts often kill the one-on-ones and team meetings that matter most.
Six business beliefs to unlearn if you want to grow
Dan Martell
March 2, 2026
Pivoting
8
Goal setting
7
MVP & prototyping
6
Acting messy beats planning — customer feedback is the only real plan.
Copy companies at your stage, not Fortune 500 playbooks you can't afford.
Passion without a market is just an expensive hobby — love the problem.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Building a planning system that actually sticks
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
March 2, 2026
Productivity & habits
9
Goal setting
6
Processes & SOPs
5
Planning fights chaos and big tech, not birdwatching.
Embed tasks in your calendar to kill task-system aversion.
AI won't solve planning — consistency and capture are human problems.
Business operating systems
YouTube
Building a $400,000 independent marketing business without a team
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
March 2, 2026
Business operating systems
9
Content marketing
8
Closing techniques
7
Great results alone won't grow your business — systems will.
85% of customers won't buy until you've nurtured them for a year.
Niching down took one marketer from $1M to $10M in revenue.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Kettle Chips: how a small Oregon brand conquered the UK first
How I Built This with Guy Raz
March 2, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Pivoting
7
Bootstrapping
6
Why Kettle expanded to the UK before the US East Coast
A rancid oil disaster nearly killed the brand at launch
Princess Di's grocery bag photo beat any marketing campaign