30 March 2026
This week's additions focus on mindset, ai, and strategy, with new digests from Matthew Volkwyn, Starter Story, and TK Kader. Highlights include A great product alone can take you to $1M/year without ads. One profit-share deal with a single creator drove 10,000% MRR growth.
Showing 54 digests for 30 March 2026.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Premeditatio malorum: why Stoics embrace worst-case thinking
The Daily Stoic
April 3, 2026
Rehearsing bad outcomes makes you respond, not react, when they arrive
Marcus Aurelius listed daily frustrations each morning to prevent bitterness
Negative thinking doesn't attract disaster — it strips disaster of surprise
Physical & cognitive performance
YouTube
High-intensity exercise drives lasting brain protection via lactate
Tim Ferriss
April 3, 2026
Physical & cognitive performance
9
Six months of HIIT can protect your brain for five years
Lactate — not VO2 max — triggers the cognitive benefits
Slow high-rep lifting replicates the lactate response anywhere
How to think faster and talk smarter with Matt Abrahams
Masters of Scale
April 2, 2026
Communication
9
Public speaking
7
Anxiety is evolutionary — manage it with breath work and movement.
Start pitches like an action movie: value first, no preambles.
Listening to paraphrase builds trust faster than any other technique.
Why competence is no longer a competitive advantage in the AI era
Alex M H Smith
April 2, 2026
Vision & mission
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Branding
5
AI commodifies competence — the new floor, not an edge
Charismatic businesses create desire that didn't exist before
Four traits no AI can generate: conviction, risk, expression, change
Physical health & longevity
YouTube
Strength, hypertrophy, and endurance: core principles and protocols
Andrew Huberman
April 2, 2026
Physical health & longevity
7
Intensity drives strength; volume drives hypertrophy — they need different programming.
A simple 3-to-5 framework covers most strength and power goals.
Five minutes of breath control post-workout accelerates recovery and prevents energy crashes.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
WebMCP explained: five ways to prepare your site for AI agents
Semrush
April 2, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
Processes & SOPs
5
AI agents skip sites they can't complete tasks on — silently.
WebMCP lets your site expose actions to agents without building an API.
Clean forms and clear labels are all you need to start preparing.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Why Claude beats ChatGPT: tools, workflows, and making the switch
Dan Martell
April 2, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
AI strategy & adoption
7
Competitive analysis
5
OpenAI is burning cash; Anthropic is on track to break even
Claude's four tools cover writing, browser, desktop, and custom code
Switch from ChatGPT in two minutes without losing memory or context
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Five operational changes that make AI dramatically more effective
Dylan Davis
April 2, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
10
Automation & tools
6
The ceiling on AI results is operational, not a prompting problem.
Meeting transcripts compound in value — unrecorded meetings lose insights fast.
File format choice directly controls how well AI follows your instructions.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic humility, grief, reading, and navigating uncertainty
The Daily Stoic
April 2, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Goal setting
6
Marcus Aurelius measured himself by honors turned down, not received
Seneca's best writings are entirely about grief — not suppressing it
Walking is the single best tool for thinking through uncertainty
Advice Line: raising capital, fighting stigma, and scaling a niche food brand
How I Built This with Guy Raz
April 2, 2026
Case studies
9
Growth hacking
7
Fundraising & VC
6
Why taking the wrong investor money can destroy your brand values
How to market a product women are too embarrassed to share publicly
Why hitting $1M locally beats chasing international deals too early
12 books that genuinely improved one writer's thinking and income
Joanna Wiebe
April 2, 2026
Case studies
9
Goal setting
7
Copywriting
7
Read Influence for the studies, not the six-principle list
Every winning business is built on a belief nobody else holds yet
Competing on the unexpected beats delivering what you promised
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
AI in software engineering: the November inflection, dark factories, and prompt injection risks
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
April 2, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
AI tools & automation
8
Cybersecurity basics
7
November 2025: coding agents crossed the reliability threshold that changes everything
Dark factories — software built and tested by agents, humans set policy only
Prompt injection is unsolved; a Challenger-scale AI disaster is coming
Pitching investors
YouTube
How sales principles applied to fundraising improve investor close rates
The Science of Scaling
April 2, 2026
Pitching investors
9
Fundraising & VC
7
Most founders pitch before qualifying — killing their close rate.
Ask VCs about their fund first; let them reveal their thesis.
Wrong-fit investors who say yes are worse than a pass.
Retention & loyalty
YouTube
How Chewy beat Amazon in Google search with three replicable moves
Ahrefs
April 1, 2026
Retention & loyalty
9
SEO
8
Content marketing
7
99.7% retention rate built on $50 gestures with $15k lifetime payback
Product-led content turns safety questions into instant add-to-cart moments
Viral customer care stories generate high-authority backlinks without outreach
How COO Alliance peer testing and frameworks built operator confidence
Cameron Herold
April 1, 2026
Delegation
8
Business operating systems
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Candid peer feedback lets COOs validate ideas before pitching to their teams
Entire team retained through a merger — agency life norm is two years
'Minimum viable everything' shifted the company from over-planning to shipping faster