23 March 2026
This week's additions focus on mindset, ai, and leadership, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Rob Walling, and Starter Story. Highlights include One agent fails; nine purpose-built agents succeed where one frustrates Cold outreach without a timing signal is just spam.
Showing 61 digests for 23 March 2026.
COO Alliance: peer community reduces stress and builds delegation skills
Cameron Herold
March 25, 2026
Communication
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Resilience & grit
5
COOs of $100M companies share the exact same daily stresses you do
Doing tasks yourself to move fast is actively holding your company back
The right peer group becomes on-call therapy and a real-time safety net
Founder interviews
YouTube
Solo founding, AI companions, and personal software: Eugenia Kuyda on building Replika and Wabi
Solo Founders
March 25, 2026
Founder interviews
10
AI strategy & adoption
6
Delegation
5
Co-founders are usually one visionary plus high-equity employees
Replika grew from grief — rebuilding a dead friend as AI
Wabi bets personal software becomes a new creative medium
How one bootstrapped founder built a $100K/month Android app
Starter Story
March 25, 2026
Paid ads
9
MVP & prototyping
5
Bootstrapping
5
Android CPMs are 4x cheaper than iOS with only 20% worse conversion
One Google Ads channel spans Search, Play Store, YouTube, and Display
iOS app saturation is real — Android is still wide open
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Running a full marketing operation solo with 40 AI agents
EO
March 25, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
Growth hacking
7
Productivity & habits
5
40 AI agents replace a $50k/month team for just $500/month
Think Super IC, not intern — AI handles strategy, not just tasks
Stagnation is riskier than uncertainty; build agents or fall behind
IDS everywhere: solving issues at every level of the company
EOS Worldwide
March 25, 2026
Communication
9
Culture building
8
IDS limited to leadership captures only 10–20% of its power
Gossip fills the void when teams lack a structured issue outlet
Solving closest to the root empties the leadership team's issues list
Stop running social ads before testing content organically
GaryVee
March 25, 2026
Paid ads
9
Social media
8
AI tools & automation
6
Post content organically first — views predict which ads will convert.
Every post you make today is being indexed for AI-driven discovery.
Re-engaging 100+ former clients costs nothing and compounds fast.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Burnout, AI and productivity: answers to common knowledge worker frustrations
How I Work
March 25, 2026
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
AI strategy & adoption
6
AI time savings get filled with more work — not recovery
Energy has three accounts; time management can't replenish them
Context switching makes tasks take 40% longer — design it out
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stoicism vs broicism: what the manosphere gets wrong
The Daily Stoic
March 25, 2026
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
Broicism keeps courage and discipline but quietly drops justice.
Marcus Aurelius used 'common good' 80 times — it's the whole point.
Stoicism resurges when the world feels like it's falling apart.
Strait of Hormuz crisis, oil shocks, and the $160 billion tariff refund window
Masters of Scale
March 24, 2026
Supply chain
8
AI strategy & adoption
7
Cash flow management
6
Air freight prices doubled; fertilizer shortage threatens global food supply
94% of businesses owed tariff refunds haven't filed — deadline clock is ticking
AI cut Flexport's customs error rate from 1.8% to 0.2% — operators beat pure SaaS
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Six AI trends reshaping work, skills, and learning in 2026
Silicon Valley Girl
March 24, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
10
Productivity & habits
7
Automation & tools
6
Judgment — knowing good from bad output — is now the scarce skill
Solo founding is up 56% in five years; agents replace entire teams
Problems once called impossible are being solved in under five years
AI tools & automation
YouTube
How AI skills fix the context overload problem in Claude and ChatGPT
Dylan Davis
March 24, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
6
More instructions eventually makes AI output worse, not better.
Skills load specialist knowledge on demand, keeping the AI's memory free.
Three methods let AI build its own skills — no writing required.
How Otter.ai reached 35 million users by betting on voice AI early
EO
March 24, 2026
Case studies
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Business models
6
Building your own AI tech beats APIs when cost structure determines growth ceiling
Voice will replace keyboards as the primary interface for business intelligence
Betting on behaviour change before it happens is how generational companies are built
Founder interviews
Podcast
Tailwind CSS revenue decline, layoffs, and founder fitness habits
Startups For the Rest of Us
March 24, 2026
Founder interviews
9
Pricing strategy
8
Productivity & habits
6
Missing a $15K/month trend line nearly killed a profitable business
Annual subscriptions and enterprise tiers could have cushioned the collapse
8-minute weighted-vest circuits beat hour-long gym sessions for busy founders
How Bumble built an $8 billion brand with one differentiator
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
March 24, 2026
Branding
9
Niche selection
8
Product-market fit
6
Women tolerating a broken experience was the $8 billion opportunity
One rule — women message first — was the entire product premise
A clear message beats ten good features no one can remember
IDS Solve step: how to close issues with clear accountability
EOS Worldwide
March 24, 2026
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
6
A solve without clear ownership — who, what, when — is no solve at all.
Leaving a resolved issue on the list signals distrust in your team.
Miss 90% to-do completion and you can kiss your 10-year target goodbye.