This week's additions focus on marketing, strategy, and finance, with new digests from TK Kader, The Daily Stoic, and Dr. Grace Lee. Highlights include Low prices signal low value — most SaaS founders are actively hurting themselves. Why checking your phone first thing hands your day to others

Testimonials & social proof

YouTube

Five ways to extract more value from existing customers

Dan Martell May 30, 2022

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Testimonials & social proof 9

Referral programs 8

Social media 5

• Put referral and testimonial asks in the contract before work begins
• The best moment to ask is right when a customer celebrates a win
• Most companies collect testimonials but never use them in marketing

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Work-life balance

Podcast

Multi-scale seasonality and slow productivity principles

Deep Questions with Cal Newport May 30, 2022

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Work-life balance 8

Productivity & habits 7

• Structured breaks at multiple timescales short-circuit chronic work anxiety
• First-gen PhD students must actively reconstruct the informal career knowledge others inherit
• Rejecting social media doesn't mean rejecting the internet or digital connection

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