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Strategy3 steps

Biggest-Bottleneck Prioritization

Solve the single biggest problem, then pick the next — don't dream up a long roadmap.

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Communication3 steps

Conversation as Ping-Pong (Give-to-Get)

Index toward asking questions, but hit the ball back and forth instead of interrogating or monologuing.

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Influence3 steps

Dress to Signal Effort, Not Expense

Fit beats brand, dress one level up, and ask when you don't know the code.

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Self-Mastery4 steps

Exposure Time for Taste

Deliberately spend more time learning than building to develop the judgment AI can't give you.

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Leadership4 steps

Generalist-With-A-Superpower Hiring

Hire people who care obsessively, have a generalist brain, and one absolute superpower — then trial them for a week.

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Leadership4 steps

Harder Is Easier (The Figure-It-Out Principle)

Commit to the costly right thing up front, and the trust it earns makes everything else easier.

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Entrepreneurship4 steps

Hire Yourself First (Build in Public)

Do the job professionally in public before anyone hires you — then the hire is just changing the vehicle.

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Productivity4 steps

Hoard What You Know How To Do

Keep a searchable backlog of verified, working experiments so agents can recombine them into new solutions.

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Communication3 steps

Humor as a Calibrated Mastery Signal

A joke landed right up the line proves you own the room; keep a ranked joke file to do it on demand.

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Innovation3 steps

Minimum Lovable Product Ladder

Replace the MVP with a three-rung ladder: minimum lovable, lovable, absolutely lovable.

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Strategy4 steps

Mission Drive Audit

Prove you're mission-driven by showing you cannot profit except by achieving the mission.

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Entrepreneurship5 steps

Mission-Protective Provisions Playbook

Lock in founder and mission protections now, while you still have the leverage to do it.

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Self-Mastery4 steps

One-Week Top-1% AI Fluency Sprint

Pick a real problem and spend one full week taking it end-to-end with AI — that alone puts you in the global top 1%.

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Innovation5 steps

Parallel Draft Divergence

Start one idea 4-5 times in parallel, each with more precision, then pick the obvious winner.

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Mindset4 steps

Positive Delusion, Bounded by Learning

Assume everything is possible until proven wrong — but keep learning what's actually possible.

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Productivity3 steps

Precision Prompting for AI Builders

Never tell the AI 'it doesn't work' — state exactly what you expected and which parts do and don't.

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Innovation3 steps

Product-First, Add-AI-Later

Design the end-to-end product experience first, then add AI to solve specific problems — never retrofit AI into a broken flow.

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Communication3 steps

Reading the Invisible Language of the To/CC Line

Recipient order, To vs CC, and reply order all send signals people quietly read.

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Productivity4 steps

Red/Green TDD for Coding Agents

Force agents to write the test first, watch it fail, then pass — the compressed prompt is just 'red/green TDD'.

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Communication3 steps

Scheduling by Deference

The one asking does the work: let the busier person set the time, and give real options.

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Mindset3 steps

Show Me the Apparatus Test

A value is only real if there's an expensive apparatus that enforces it every time, no exceptions.

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Strategy4 steps

Spiritual Holding Company (Mission Guardian Selection)

Give the mission its own sovereignty by appointing a renewable guardian that outlives any founder.

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Innovation3 steps

Stuck-Point Scaling Law

Reliably improve an AI system by hunting where it gets stuck and tuning those spots with a fast feedback loop.

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Productivity5 steps

The 4x4 Debugging Framework

Four escalating ways to unstick a broken build, each tried exactly once, ending by teaching the agent.

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Sales5 steps

The A+ Middler and the Next Step

Founders are already elite at the middle of a sale — the only skill to add is never leaving a meeting without a next step.

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Influence3 steps

The Business-Meal Deference Protocol

Order middle-to-last, never the priciest dish, always offer to pay, and keep your tip invisible.

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Leadership3 steps

The Culture Bank (Todd Park's Deposit Rule)

Treat trustworthiness as an asset: only ever make deposits, never intentionally make a withdrawal.

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Innovation4 steps

The Dark Factory Software Model

Ship production software no human writes or reads — replace review with simulated-user QA swarms.

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Finance5 steps

The Early-Stage Sales Comp Ramp

Pay 50/50, give away 100% of quarter-one bookings, then hold reps to closing 3-5x their take-home.

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Communication3 steps

The Forgotten-Name Recovery Playbook

Tactical moves to survive not remembering names or whether you've met someone before.

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Sales4 steps

The Harder-to-Sell Heuristic

Only hire reps whose last product was harder to sell than yours — never easier.

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Strategy4 steps

The Lethal Trifecta

Any AI agent that combines three capabilities can be tricked into stealing your data — cut one leg.

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Influence3 steps

The Low-Heart-Rate Abundance Posture

Enter high-stakes rooms calm by treating every meeting as one of many, not your one shot.

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Strategy5 steps

The Sales Roadmap Budget

Give sales a fixed quarterly slice of the roadmap — say 10% of story points — and make them force-rank it.

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Sales5 steps

The Sell-Me-This-App Interview

Make every sales candidate demo your actual product before you hire them — no exceptions.

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Productivity6 steps

The Source-of-Truth PRD Cascade

Spend a day writing five layered docs so the agent, not you, carries the context on every build.

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Productivity3 steps

The Thin Skeleton Template

Start every project from a minimal template — agents copy its style far better than they follow prose instructions.

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Mindset4 steps

The Vibe-Coding Blast-Radius Rule

Vibe-code freely when only you get hurt by bugs; stop and take responsibility the moment others could.

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Strategy5 steps

The VP of Free

Somebody must be the champion of the users who never pay — and it can only be product and the founders.

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Sales5 steps

The "Would I Buy From Them?" First-Rep Test

Hire your first two sales reps on one gut criterion: would you buy your own product from them?

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Innovation3 steps

Three-Prototype Ideation

Since prototypes are now free, build a feature three ways and let real use pick the winner.

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Leadership5 steps

Two-Reps-Then-VP (The 3-to-300 Rule)

Never hire a VP of Sales until two reps are hitting quota — and never hire one who won't carry a bag.

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