Mark MacLeodFounder, Limitless.ceo · The Startup CEO Coach | Helping ambitious CEOs & founders scale world-changing companies without sacrificing their health, happiness, purpose, or humanity

Stop reading all the books and listening to all the podcasts.

25 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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Mark MacLeod argues founders learn more from running their company than from books and podcasts. He recommends a six-question end-of-day reflection routine to capture lessons from daily work: what went well, what didn't, which tasks drained energy, what you learned, how to accelerate, and what to automate or delegate.

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Founders, your company is the curriculum, not the books you're studying or the podcasts you're listening to. Your company. But so many founders are so busy executing that they fail to learn the lessons. Take a few moments at the end of each day to capture those lessons. A simple reflection: what went well today? What did not? What meetings and tasks gave me energy? Which ones strained my energy? What did I learn? How can we move faster? What can I automate, eliminate, and delegate? And what am I grateful for? Go through that learning loop every day and you will capture all the learning potential that is in your company.