9 March 2026
This week's additions focus on mindset, ai, and leadership, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Matthew Volkwyn, and Rob Walling. Highlights include A single soft pushback reliably yields 20% more — at any level. Using AI for copy actively disables the skills that make writers great
Showing 62 digests for 9 March 2026.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Let AI explore your data before you ask it anything
Dylan Davis
March 10, 2026
AI tools & automation
10
Automation & tools
7
Specific questions constrain AI to one skill, hiding better insights.
Share intent, not questions — let AI discover what you didn't know to ask.
Method 2 uses a todos file to survive memory resets across hundreds of files.
Three Tests to Build a Simple Business That Scales Past $30M
Sunny Lenarduzzi
March 10, 2026
Business models
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Income tied to your time is a schedule, not a business.
Two or more 'yes' answers on the calendar test: cut or redesign.
Scaling means more income without adding more work or people.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Patience, impatience, and the long game with GaryVee
GaryVee
March 10, 2026
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
7
Impatience is insecurity — people rush results to mask self-doubt
Shortcuts are the fastest route to losing, not winning
Real fearlessness comes from not needing to protect what you've built
Accounting basics
YouTube
How tax write-offs actually work for small business owners
HR Party of One
March 10, 2026
Accounting basics
9
Compliance & regulation
7
A deduction lowers taxable profit, not your tax bill directly.
Meals, travel, and car expenses are routinely misused as write-offs.
Employee wages and benefits are often the largest legitimate deductions.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Returning to rhythm and thinking from others' perspectives
The Daily Stoic
March 10, 2026
Resilience & grit
8
Communication
6
Identity & self-belief
5
Recovery speed after setbacks matters more than avoiding them.
Marcus Aurelius recalled his own failings before judging others.
Kennedy avoided nuclear war by modelling Khrushchev's perspective.
How to stop being the bottleneck with a one-page decision tree
Layla at ProcessDriven
March 10, 2026
Processes & SOPs
9
Delegation
7
Unclear ownership — not missing SOPs — is why you're buried in questions.
A decision tree maps who decides what in under 10 minutes.
Stepping in anyway after building one silently kills the system.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Rebuilding your life means aiming higher, not returning to baseline
Brendon Burchard
March 9, 2026
Resilience & grit
10
Goal setting
6
Getting back to square one after failure is a plateau, not recovery
Wisdom from setbacks is wasted unless you aim higher than before
You can feel fully satisfied now and still want more — it's not a trade-off
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Systems thinking: how to automate an entire job with AI agents
Brett Malinowski
March 9, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
7
Business models
5
Map the process before prompting — that's where the real AI leverage is
One Claude workflow replaces a full podcast producer, running 24/7
Sell system output, not time — why AI agencies now attract VC funding
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
Three hard lessons from Ben Horowitz for startup founders
Business Book Club
March 9, 2026
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Resilience & grit
7
Why persistence — not pivoting — is the real founder superpower.
Wartime CEOs must be autocratic; peacetime mode will sink you in a crisis.
A spectacular hire outperforms a solid one by 10x for 30% more salary.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Beliefs as tools: how to align motivation and stop limiting yourself
Coaching for Leaders
March 9, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Management
6
Motivation is a triangle: belief is the base, not an afterthought.
Beliefs are tools to choose strategically, not fixed truths to obey.
Mental contrasting — planning for obstacles — beats pure visualisation every time.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Why smart people stay broke and how to think simpler
Dan Martell
March 9, 2026
Identity & self-belief
8
Niche selection
7
Protecting a 'smart' identity stops people asking questions worth millions
Copying proven models beats innovating from scratch by 20% survival odds
One market, one product, one channel, one year — simplicity scales
Founder interviews
Podcast
The social media pause: lessons from The Minimalists' year off
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
March 9, 2026
Founder interviews
9
Deep work & focus
7
Productivity & habits
6
Pausing social media reveals what it actually costs you — and gives.
The Minimalists lost revenue but found mental clarity and creative space.
A four-step framework turns any social media break into lasting change.
How Yoon found a winning EdTech idea after eight pivots
EO
March 9, 2026
Pivoting
9
Customer discovery
7
Founder interviews
6
A cancer diagnosis at 18 became his startup decision filter
Eight pivots failed for lack of founder-market fit, not market fit
A Figma mockup — never deployed — landed Pensieve's first customer
Use AI prompts and story structure to convert more customers
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
March 9, 2026
Copywriting
9
AI tools & automation
7
Lead with the customer's problem, not your company's history.
A seven-element story formula transforms any copy into a conversion engine.
AI tools execute the StoryBrand framework on existing copy in minutes.
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How Caleb Dean built and sold a fitness app in 26 days of revenue
Superwall
March 9, 2026
MVP & prototyping
9
Niche selection
7
Growth hacking
7
90 people paid $5 for an app that didn't exist yet
App Store pre-orders seeded 3,000 users before a single real launch
26 days of revenue was enough to close a six-figure acquisition