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.
Founder interviews
YouTube
How a self-taught founder built AI software for police reports
Solo Founders
April 1, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Customer discovery
7
Management
6
Officers spend a third of their time on paperwork — AI can fix that
Every 115 officers on the platform, one life is saved per year
Why giving up 50% to a co-founder is almost always a bad deal
Influencer & partnerships
YouTube
How a 14-year-old scaled a gamified fitness app to $14K/month
Starter Story
April 1, 2026
Influencer & partnerships
9
Case studies
7
Unit economics
6
Close influencers at a CPM below your RPM for built-in profitability.
One $800 influencer deal generated $3K revenue and 1,800 downloads.
Gamifying a habit tracker with XP and leaderboards drove sticky retention.
Demis Hassabis: the missionary building AGI at DeepMind
Founders
April 1, 2026
Origin stories
10
Vision & mission
6
Why Demis sold DeepMind to Google for $650m — and never regretted it.
AlphaGo Zero beat humans by abandoning all human knowledge entirely.
There is no 50% mode in Demis — only 100%, always.
Why organic social content should drive your entire marketing mix
GaryVee
April 1, 2026
Social media
9
Content marketing
8
Paid ads
5
Platforms now reward relevance over followers — creative creates reach
Spend media dollars only on creative already proven by organic views
Most Fortune 500 marketing budgets optimise for metrics nobody believes in
AI tools & automation
Podcast
How ELMO Software's president uses AI across his entire workday
How I Work
April 1, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Automation & tools
6
A personalised AI brief saves each exec 1–2 hours daily
Six-hour workshop transcript turned into decisions, owners, and comms
AI role-plays tough conversations on the drive to work
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Your mind takes the shape of what you repeatedly think
The Daily Stoic
April 1, 2026
Productivity & habits
8
Resilience & grit
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Habitual thoughts reshape the mind the way posture reshapes the spine
Stoic optimism lets you find good in obstacles — it doesn't conjure them away
Marcus wrote Meditations as daily self-dyeing, not a book to read once
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
How AI is reshaping the internet, cybersecurity, and work
Masters of Scale
March 31, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
10
Business models
8
Community building
5
Getting traffic from Anthropic is 65,000x harder than Google once was
AI compresses attacker dwell time from days to minutes
Workers aged 25–40 face the sharpest AI displacement risk
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How to Build Income to $25K/Month: Three Practical Steps
Matthew Volkwyn
March 31, 2026
Prospecting & outreach
9
Business models
8
Motivation
6
Learn a high-demand skill; reach $10K/month with advertising or sales.
Upgrade to bigger clients with the same skill; target $25K/month.
Use cash and credibility to build a business through delegation.
Business operating systems
YouTube
Three systems that separate $2M CEOs from $20M CEOs
Ryan Deiss
March 31, 2026
Business operating systems
9
Management
8
Resilience & grit
6
Your anxiety points at noise, not the one constraint that matters.
A four-test filter turns emotional decisions into principle-based ones.
Pre-mortems diagnose broken assumptions before blame derails learning.
How to position yourself before AI rewrites the economy
Silicon Valley Girl
March 31, 2026
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
7
20–30% unemployment in some sectors within two to three years
Entrepreneurship shifts from chess to squash: daily pivots, not long bets
Four skills that matter: AI mastery, agility, ethics, critical thinking
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Stop rebuilding AI dashboards by moving them to your desktop
Dylan Davis
March 31, 2026
AI tools & automation
9
Processes & SOPs
7
No-code & low-code
5
Long chat threads make AI forget your dashboard's formatting rules
A desktop AI agent with an instructions file never loses context
Cloud sync replaces web hosting for team sharing — no auth needed
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
How to find, hire, and work with owner-level thinkers
Startups For the Rest of Us
March 31, 2026
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
7
Owner-level thinking typically takes 5–8 years of experience to develop.
Exceptional hires raise every teammate's standard through proximity alone.
You must sell the role — great candidates always have other options.
How to build a $100k business in six months without social media
Sunny Lenarduzzi
March 31, 2026
Niche selection
9
Prospecting & outreach
8
MVP & prototyping
6
You need 3–17 clients per month, not thousands of followers.
Pre-sell before you build — research calls become your first paying cohort.
Eight targeted videos beat a content treadmill: measure dollars per subscriber.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoicism, perspective, and anger: lessons from Australia
The Daily Stoic
March 31, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Distance makes alarming news look absurd — the Stoic view from above.
Stoicism is a daily practice; stopping is like skipping the gym.
Anger weakens you against opponents — use the levers you actually control.
Eight business systems myths small teams should stop following
Layla at ProcessDriven
March 31, 2026
Processes & SOPs
9
Management
6
Documenting everything wastes time — five working SOPs beat a hundred unused ones.
"Common sense" is just shared context; fix the system, not the person.
Automate only after running a process manually at least a dozen times.