6 April 2026
This week's additions focus on mindset, ai, and founder stories, with new digests from Matthew Volkwyn, Rob Walling, and Starter Story. Highlights include None of the 21 millionaires made money selling copywriting courses AI native SaaS apps average 40% retention vs 90%+ for traditional
Showing 46 digests for 6 April 2026.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
You must learn to see: the stoic lesson of Marcus Aurelius' crumbling statue
The Daily Stoic
April 8, 2026
Identity & self-belief
10
Resilience & grit
6
Marcus Aurelius' monument became a pedestal for someone else.
On a long enough timeline, every legacy is written over.
Not caring about fame is the only path to a real one.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Sabri Suby's subtraction method for protecting time and focus
How I Work
April 8, 2026
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Goal setting
6
Track every hour, then cut tasks below your hourly rate
Meetings only on Mondays and Fridays — a fixer filters the rest
The dream day exercise beats goal lists for killing shiny objects
Founder interviews
Podcast
Calm CEO David Ko on stress, burnout, and leading with vulnerability
Masters of Scale
April 7, 2026
Founder interviews
9
Management
7
Resilience & grit
6
Why Calm's CEO calls himself the most stressed CEO alive
Good stress is a sprint; burnout is a marathon you won't start
Nearly half of C-suite leaders are stressed but hiding it
Leading from within: Parker Palmer's guide to authentic leadership
Business Book Club
April 7, 2026
Communication
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Management
6
Unexamined fears make leaders toxic — self-knowledge is the fix.
People follow leaders who believe, not leaders who have answers.
Community accountability is where individual inner work gets done.
Prompt engineering
YouTube
Trim your AI instructions to unlock better model performance
Dylan Davis
April 7, 2026
Bloated prompts actively restrain smarter models from performing well.
30–50% of rules in most prompts can be deleted without quality loss.
A five-step quarterly detox removes stale, contradictory, and redundant rules.
Selling your B2B SaaS: why most founders leave money on the table
Startups For the Rest of Us
April 7, 2026
Exit strategy
9
Valuation
8
Fundraising & VC
6
70% of SaaS acquirers are private equity, not the strategics founders expect
Growth rate decay can cut your exit value by 8 figures overnight
"Startups are bought not sold" is a VC incentive myth, not market reality
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoicism as a tool for not making your own situation worse
The Daily Stoic
April 7, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Productivity & habits
5
The second arrow — bitterness after hardship — is the only fate you control.
Ancient Stoics endured exile and injustice without becoming who wronged them.
Stoicism's justice virtue separates the philosophy from self-serving 'bro-ism'.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Michelle Khare on building a sustainable YouTube show from scratch
Tim Ferriss
April 7, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Business models
7
Prospecting & outreach
5
Why 8–10 episodes a year beats posting constantly
A three-person Formula One team anyone can build for free
Fear setting: the 2016 email that launched a billion-view channel
Physical & cognitive performance
YouTube
The science of awe: how wonder reshapes health, identity, and community
Andrew Huberman
April 6, 2026
Physical & cognitive performance
9
Relationships & family
7
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Awe reduces inflammation, pain, and long COVID symptoms — one minute daily helps.
Self-focus is awe's primary enemy; social media is structurally designed against it.
Collective experiences — music, sport, campfires — synchronise brains within milliseconds.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Managing stress by building habits, relationships, and emotional anchors
Brendon Burchard
April 6, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Strong daily habits act as a fortress that stress cannot knock down
Negative thoughts are lies your brain receives, not choices you make
Inauthenticity guarantees failure; being yourself is non-negotiable for connection
How leaders can help employees navigate career-jolting moments
Coaching for Leaders
April 6, 2026
Management
9
Resilience & grit
6
Jolts force employees to reassess work; leaders can often predict them.
Explaining the 'why' behind bad news cuts theft and turnover measurably.
Trust-based openness lets managers detect and buffer jolts before they escalate.
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
Starting from zero: a six-step plan to reach $1M using AI
Dan Martell
April 6, 2026
Prospecting & outreach
9
AI tools & automation
8
Pricing strategy
7
Why finding a painful problem beats following your passion
Underpricing attracts bad clients and kills the business
Buyer's remorse starts the next morning — TTFV is everything
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Deep Work at 10: What still holds and what has changed
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
April 6, 2026
Deep work & focus
9
AI strategy & adoption
5
Processes & SOPs
5
AI that reduces cognitive strain is the biggest new threat to deep work.
Social media shifted from utility to pure addiction — quit like sobriety, not tool selection.
Too many concurrent projects create uncompressible overhead that kills focus time.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Wingstop founder Antonio Swad: building and selling two franchise brands
How I Built This with Guy Raz
April 6, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Fundraising & VC
7
Business models
6
Why seller financing without M&A lawyers cost Swad $12 million
Chicken wings were bar snacks — until Swad made them a meal
Pizza Patron built a brand by serving customers no one else respected
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Things have always been bad — and probably worse than now
The Daily Stoic
April 6, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Motivation
5
Today's problems are mild compared to what history actually endured.
Pausing before reacting turns impressions into examined, accurate judgments.
Instincts deserve trust only after you've done the work to verify them.