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.
How to stop being the chief everything officer in your small business
Layla at ProcessDriven
April 14, 2026
Delegation
9
Processes & SOPs
8
Work stuck in your head makes delegation and rest impossible.
Four-step STOP framework turns tasks into delegatable responsibilities.
The two-month rule prevents wasted time on low-ROI automations.
How Ferrari built the world's most paradoxical luxury brand
Acquired
April 13, 2026
Origin stories
10
Branding
7
Business models
6
Ferrari sells fewer cars per year than Toyota sells every 10 hours — yet is worth more than Ford, VW, Honda, and Mercedes combined.
Enzo deliberately cultivated myth over product: dark sunglasses, the prancing horse, staged deals, and death as marketing.
Gross profit per car exceeds $170,000 — more than the full retail price of a Porsche.
Physical health & longevity
YouTube
Fertility and hormone health for women: a practical guide with Dr. Natalie Crawford
Andrew Huberman
April 13, 2026
Physical health & longevity
8
Everyone should get an AMH test — it costs $79 and your doctor won't offer it.
Cannabis cuts egg yield by 25% and fertilisation rates by 28% — most people don't know.
Controlling chronic inflammation is the core lever for fertility, hormones, and longevity.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to become irreplaceable as AI reshapes work and relationships
Brendon Burchard
April 13, 2026
Identity & self-belief
9
Management
7
Most people are replaced for ignoring others' stated goals, not lack of skill
Single-task contributors are the first cut — embed in multi-node, high-value workflows
Automate low-order work to take on harder problems, not to coast
Leadership without blame: Jocko Willink's three tactics for founders
Business Book Club
April 13, 2026
Management
8
Delegation
7
Resilience & grit
5
Stepping back physically in a crisis outperforms diving in to fix it.
Owning failures publicly makes your whole team solution-focused, not defensive.
Decentralised command: push decisions to whoever sees the problem closest.
How Leaders Design Love Into Work: Marcus Buckingham's Five-Feeling Framework
Coaching for Leaders
April 13, 2026
Culture building
10
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Only fives change behavior — threes and fours drive nothing.
Love means feeling more fully yourself; leaders can design it in.
Five sequential feelings build love: control, harmony, significance, warmth, growth.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Building an AI-first venture studio aiming for $25 billion in value
Dan Martell
April 13, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
10
Founder interviews
8
Management
6
AI-first means no interface, no login — rethink the product entirely.
Coding is now English; anyone who can speak can build software.
Standards, not people, are your greatest asset as a founder.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Cal Newport on slow technology: why less friction-free tools can make you better
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
April 13, 2026
Deep work & focus
9
AI strategy & adoption
5
A typewriter beats a laptop for creative flow — here's why.
Friction isn't the problem in knowledge work; distraction and exhaustion are.
Harari's AI fears rely on a story Silicon Valley told him, not reality.
How iRobot built the Roomba from military robots to consumer icon
How I Built This with Guy Raz
April 13, 2026
Origin stories
10
Pivoting
8
Bootstrapping
7
12 years of military contracts accidentally built the skills Roomba needed
An unsolicited Pepsi ad sold 250,000 units in six weeks
Regulators blocked Amazon's $1.7B acquisition, handing the tech to China