13 April 2026
This week's additions focus on mindset, leadership, and strategy, with new digests from Matthew Volkwyn, Starter Story, and Superwall. Highlights include Performance royalties from one sales letter can pay millions for years. Build satellite products that funnel paying users to your core product
Showing 54 digests for 13 April 2026.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
AI safety researcher on job loss, AGI risk, and what to do now
Silicon Valley Girl
April 17, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Exit strategy
5
Junior programmers and translators are already being replaced, not in the future
No one knows how to control a superintelligence — including the people building it
Invest in assets AI cannot replicate; treat narrow tools and AGI as different threats
Business operating systems
YouTube
Hitting the Ceiling: a podcast for entrepreneurs who've hit their limits
EOS Worldwide
April 17, 2026
Business operating systems
10
Management
6
The moments entrepreneurs never talk about have a name.
Five abilities — simplify, delegate, predict, systemize, structure — break the ceiling.
Built for founders who are stuck and know they're the bottleneck.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Time flies and impulse control: two Stoic tools for daily life
The Daily Stoic
April 17, 2026
Decades vanish quietly — Seneca says time gives no warning.
You control your impulses, not what triggers them.
Journaling lets bad reactions die on the page, not in public.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Fear setting: the Stoic exercise that turns anxiety into action
Tim Ferriss
April 17, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Goal setting
6
Inaction has a cost — fear setting forces you to calculate it
Define the nightmare concretely; vague fears are harder to beat
Michelle quit her job using this exact exercise — and it worked
Founder interviews
Podcast
Why CEOs need to think like athletes: Byron Deeter on investing and peak performance
Masters of Scale
April 16, 2026
Founder interviews
9
Fundraising & VC
8
Resilience & grit
6
Sleep deprivation is statistically equivalent to running a company drunk.
Back already-great teams — then get out of their way.
Crimes of omission hurt more than failed bets; Bessemer publishes its misses.
Why markets are oversaturated and how to escape the trap
Alex M H Smith
April 16, 2026
Business models
9
Identity & self-belief
5
Niching down makes overcrowding worse, not better.
Creating unknown demand beats finding existing needs.
Moju, Substack, Oatley all built categories nobody asked for.
Physical & cognitive performance
YouTube
How adrenaline and science-based tools improve memory formation
Andrew Huberman
April 16, 2026
Physical & cognitive performance
8
Deep work & focus
5
Spike adrenaline after learning, not before, to cut repetitions
Exercise releases bone hormones that keep hippocampal memory circuits healthy
13 minutes of daily meditation improves memory — but only after eight weeks
Email copywriting, client strategy, and building a freelance business
Matthew Volkwyn
April 16, 2026
Email marketing
9
Prospecting & outreach
8
Pricing strategy
7
Why effective hourly rate matters more than total retainer size
Segmentation and personalisation are email marketing's biggest untapped lever
Freelancing is a phase — accept the full model or choose a different one
Content marketing
YouTube
Five digital marketing strategies that scaled two companies to $1M+
Semrush
April 16, 2026
Content marketing
9
Email marketing
7
Branding
6
Distribution must be built into the product, not added after launch.
Marketing assets that compound beat campaigns that stop when you stop.
Email lists outperform social — acquirers ask about lists, not followers.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Three levels of AI adoption and where the next wave is being built
Dan Martell
April 16, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
AI tools & automation
7
Only 0.05% of AI users are running autonomous AI organizations today
At level three, one AI agent spawns specialists and manages everything for you
Real estate scouting, inbox management, and purchasing already run autonomously
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
How AI is reshaping career entry and what workers should do
EO
April 16, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
Long-term planning
6
Young workers in AI-exposed jobs face 16% slower employment growth.
AI threatens entry-level roles but can't replace strategic thinking or social skills.
Using AI as a learning tool could turn career ladders into career lattices.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Boxed founder Chieh Huang advises early-stage founders on scaling
How I Built This with Guy Raz
April 16, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Processes & SOPs
7
Business models
6
Why your operational ceiling will destroy your brand before competition does
Thin retail margins get worse once you factor long payment cycles
A packaging innovation — not better ingredients — can unlock a stalled brand
Deep work & focus
YouTube
A seven-step formula for generating creative ideas consistently
Joanna Wiebe
April 16, 2026
Deep work & focus
8
Iteration & feedback loops
6
Creativity is recombination, not originality — combine what already exists
Constraints unlock ideas; total freedom paralyzes creative thinking
The subconscious finishes work only after you feed it raw material
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Maria Semple's five-step daily Stoic practice and philosophy of life
The Daily Stoic
April 16, 2026
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
Identity & self-belief
6
A novelist's self-invented five-step Stoic morning routine, explained.
Why "virtue equals freedom" beats "virtue equals happiness."
Stoicism's blind spot on love — and why women feel it most.
Gender-diverse teams in Africa: why the data beats the social argument
Lean Startup Co.
April 16, 2026
Fundraising & VC
8
Culture building
7
Gender-diverse teams deliver 10–20% higher net IRR than all-male teams
Fit-for-purpose capital fills gaps banks and DFIs won't touch
Set pivot milestones before the emotional moment, not during it