💭 What 11 Things Could Have Saved You Years of Struggle?

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This week’s Founder Finds includes:

🥱 Why you’re so tired
🔍 An AI SEO playbook
💭 11 pieces of life advice
✨ A curated list of Mac apps
🤖 Cursor instructions for GPT-5
➡️ And more…



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✨ Awesome Mac Apps shared by Elia Zane
A curated list of great macOS software


🔍 AI SEO Playbook shared by Ben Fisher
How to optimize your content for AI search


🤖 GPT-5 Cursor Instructions shared by Alper Tunga
Custom Cursor Agent instructions optimized for GPT-5



🧿 HeadsUp of the Week

Notion just quietly launched ‘Agents’ that can actually DO tasks for you.

This is the first major productivity tool to go fully autonomous.

Agents can manage your projects, update databases and handle workflows while you sleep.

The shift from ‘AI assistant’ to ‘AI employee’ is happening faster than we expected.

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🧿 Dru Riley added backlink, keyword and domain authority tracking for competitors to HeadsUp


🌱 Jason A Erickson hit 5,000 monthly organic search visits with Simply Lawn Directory


🎓 Paul Martin collected 50 resources for learning Web3


🖥️ Yuyu launched What Is My Screen Size on Product Hunt


🚀 Paul Metcalfe launched Founder



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What 11 Things Could Have Saved You Years of Struggle?

One bad thing can ruin your entire month. But here’s how good and bad can coexist:

  • Replace perfection with interest
  • Build competence to eliminate fear
  • Remember your choices belong only to you



🐦 Tweet of the Week



🛠️ Tools of the Week

🖼️ Aragon AI — Use AI to do a photo shoot


🎬 Zebracat — Create marketing videos with AI


👨‍💻 CodeFast — Learn to code in weeks, not months



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❔ Ask Yourself

Why Are You So Tired?

Here’s why nowadays everybody’s so tired:

  • Modern life is chemically draining: Screens block sleep chemicals (melatonin), while work demands and decisions build up brain toxins that need proper sleep to clear out.
  • Our brains weren’t built for this: We make lots of decisions daily vs our ancestors’ simple choices. Each decision creates chemical buildup (glutamate) that exhausts us, even without physical work.
  • We fight natural rhythms: Everyone has a natural sleep pattern (chronotype), but modern schedules force a one-size-fits-all approach. Plus, we block tiredness signals with caffeine, leading to harder crashes.



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