This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and marketing, with new digests from Rob Walling, TK Kader, and Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth. Highlights include Pivoting to marketing automation saved a flatlining, high-churn SaaS Fix the earliest broken flywheel stage before investing in later ones

Vision & mission

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How to craft a vivid vision for business and personal life

Cameron Herold March 20, 2023

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Vision & mission 10

Culture building 7

Goal setting 6

• Write your company's future as a four-page present-tense description
• Sharing your vision publicly makes strangers volunteer to help build it
• Hiring for vision alignment plus skill, not competency alone, drives hyper-growth

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Identity & self-belief

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How to break out of stagnation: momentum, visualization, and self-belief

Dan Martell March 20, 2023

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Identity & self-belief 9

Motivation 8

• Your past failures are often your greatest qualification to help others.
• Confidence built on ability collapses under pressure — build it on intention.
• Most people quit just before momentum breaks through: compound pounding counts.

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Deep work & focus

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Productivity as autonomy, not optimization: Cal Newport's framework

Deep Questions with Cal Newport March 20, 2023

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Deep work & focus 9

Productivity & habits 6

• Hustle-culture productivity culture is a narrow, misleading frame
• Control your obligations first — then choose your own destination
• A good system lets you push back on overload with confidence

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