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How to run a 30-day "mental model" reading sprint with a two-column notebook? Carve out 25 min at six-thirty AM; crack open a split-page lab book: left 6 cm for idea, right 10 cm for deployment. Left header = "Spark", right header = "Execution". Read only twenty then halt at the initial unfamiliar framework. Distill it to ≤12 words on the left. Within a breath and a half pen one actionable application on the right: person, place, number. Example: left "think backward", right "Nuke today’s feature meet, list a trio ways the launch could fail, assign a fall guy per risk, save 4 dev-days".

Finish strong with Julia Galef’s 176-page field manual. Galef distinguishes "combat" vs. "recon" defaults and finishes with a coffee-break Bayesian calculator: old belief × new evidence = updated belief. Alumni who keyed in 20 practice updates on personal predictions jumped calibration 38 → 71 % accuracy inside 42 days (CFAR cohort).

Build a 1-Page Lead Magnet That Solves One Pain in 10 Minutes Take the exact question you answer on repeat in support chats and turn it into a step-by-step PDF. 72 % of SaaS founders who did this in March 2024 scooped 430–680 fresh contacts within 14 days (source: Paddle Benchmark).

Run the test new visitors; returnees skew to the original. Use Google Optimize; 50/50 split, 24-hour cookie. Lock the page—no edits once the clock starts. Track micro-conversions too: challenger spiked 19 % more ad-to-lander clicks, proving the hook works before the form even shows.

Day 3: deliver the promised lead magnet again, but inside a Google Drive folder that also hides a 3-min demo video. Subject "how 312 users got result X in 72 h (screenshots inside)". Place one testimonial screenshot above the fold, one below. CTA button color #FF5A00–orange lifts cart adds 11 % vs green in last 6 tests. Price anchor: show the normal $79 tag, cross it out, present $59 upgrade. Tag readers who click video 75 % through; feed to ad retargeting at $0.18 CPC.

Apple Podcasts Connect refuses feeds that point to URL shorteners or require sign-in. Replace every https://drive.google.com/file/d/FILE_ID/view with https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILE_ID and host only stereo 44.1 kHz MP3 audio under 200 MB. Bigger episodes trigger a silent error in the RSS ingest queue.

Chart Stakeholder Emotions Before You Draw the Process Flow Stage a 45-minute "emotion scan" workshop ahead of any flowchart session. Seat each participant with a red, yellow, and green index card. Ask them to pen the single strongest feeling they have about the current process on the card that matches its intensity. Gather and cluster the cards on a wall; snap the wall—this heat map becomes page one of your docs.

Right-click the main asset folder → Share → Viewer → Anyone with the link. Inject the URL into your CRM; leads access a read-only gallery that delivers 200 MB video previews without signing in. Schedule expiry to 30 days so expired listings vanish and you remain under 15 GB quota.

Minute 25–30: Pick one. Dot-vote with Sharpies; each voter gets three dots, no dot fatter than another. The stickie with the most dots becomes the prototype target. Assign responsible human, deadline, and metric before the timer screams.

Turn New Subscribers into $97 Customers with a 5-Day Tripwire Funnel Send the first upsell email 5 minutes post opt-in: a 90-minute workshop recording at $97, tagged "new-member-only." Include a 36-hour countdown timer; data across 41 niches show this pushes take-rate from 3.8 % to 9.4 %.

Seal the cart at the 90-hour mark. Immediately redirect the page to a standby signup; collect emails for the upcoming round and preserve scarcity. Repeat the process every 30 days; the unchanged funnel keeps producing between 1.9k–2.4k $97 sales per 30 days without additional spend.

Duplicate the sheet, then overwrite cell A1 with today’s date–Sheets will auto-calculate every posting slot for the following three months. Column C fetches the 3 best-performing hashtags from your latest fifty Instagram posts via the free Hashtagify add-on; drop the export there to stop guessing tags. Reserve rows 6–35 for TikTok: input upload hour in 24-hour format and the sheet highlights slots that coincide with your follower peak (extracted from Analytics → Audience → Peak Activity).

Submit the Feed URL via Apple Podcasts Connect Dashboard Sign in through podcastsconnect.apple.com using the identical Apple ID that owns your RSS authority. Click the magenta "+" symbol in the left-top corner, select "Add a Show", then "Add with RSS Feed". Insert the complete HTTPS link from your Google Drive Download Link Generator Drive-hosted XML file into the single text box and press "Validate". Apple scans within half a minute; if red badges appear, fix the precise tag Apple mentions—zero re-upload necessary, just tweak the file in Drive and re-validate.

Export the cover at 72 dpi, sRGB, no ICC profile; run through ImageOptim till ≤ 512 KB. Host the image on a properly configured HTTPS domain; Dropbox raw links expire and kill the feed. Paste the feed URL into W3C validator first, then into Podcasts Connect; fix every red line—yellow warnings become rejections at editorial review.

After approval, shelve test episodes with yes; removing the tag later makes them public without re-review.