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 Variance built AI agents to catch fraud at scale
Y Combinator
March 31, 2026
Founder interviews
10
AI strategy & adoption
8
Automation & tools
6
AI agents replace rules engines, classifiers, and human analysts entirely
Detected state-sponsored fraud rings no isolated classifier could have found
12-person team processing petabytes, operating like a 25-person engineering org
Why your preferences, not your fears, limit what you achieve
Brendon Burchard
March 30, 2026
Goal setting
9
Productivity & habits
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
Solving harder problems directly and predictably earns you more money.
Sitting near under-performers cuts your output by 20–30%, guaranteed.
Your payoff window — not fear — determines whether you ever start.
Charlie Munger's mental models for smarter decisions and deeper trust
Business Book Club
March 30, 2026
Goal setting
9
Long-term planning
7
Communication
6
Single-domain expertise leaves you blind — build a latticework instead.
One catastrophic failure multiplies everything else by zero.
Trust is the most efficient economic force — and it must be deserved.
How Immigrant Entrepreneurs Build Lasting Connections Through Shared Values
Coaching for Leaders
March 30, 2026
Communication
9
Community building
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Shared values create stronger bonds than shared heritage or experience.
Immigrants rebuild social capital deliberately — passivity is not an option.
Successful founders ask 'how can I give?' rather than centering themselves.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
How to stop procrastinating by fixing your focus and identity
Dan Martell
March 30, 2026
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Procrastination is internal avoidance, not laziness or external distraction
Start before motivation arrives — momentum builds after the first gear
Habits stick permanently only when reframed as identity, not discipline
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Finding meaning in a distracted world: Arthur Brooks on the age of emptiness
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
March 30, 2026
Deep work & focus
9
Work-life balance
6
Meaninglessness — not phone addiction — is the top predictor of depression.
The doom loop: escaping boredom with tech makes you more bored and empty.
Calling comes from earning your success and serving others, not passion-matching.
How to become more magnetic in conversations
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
March 30, 2026
Communication
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Pausing 5–6 seconds before replying signals competence, not hesitation.
Asking 'what does this person need?' instantly shifts you into control.
Summarising what you heard is a survival signal — it makes people trust you.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Marc Lore built diapers.com, sold to Amazon, and then took on Amazon with Jet.com
How I Built This with Guy Raz
March 30, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Business models
8
Fundraising & VC
6
Amazon forced a $550M sale by threatening to take diaper prices to zero
Packaging physics: adding a pound to an outgoing box costs just 10 cents
Walmart paid $3.3B for Jet.com one year after launch
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic principles applied to baseball and everyday resilience
The Daily Stoic
March 30, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Why obsessing over what you can't control is a resource drain
Frank Robinson fined himself $200 after a blowout win
Ego doesn't just annoy — it makes learning structurally impossible