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Accountability Structure for Life Goals
Hire (or partner up as) a coach for your life the way you'd hire a personal trainer for your body.
Daily Goal-and-Three-Actions Ritual
Each day write your aspirational identity, then three actions to move toward it.
First-Principles Re-Derivation (Rerun the Decision Tree)
Rebuild any product decision from today's building blocks instead of copying path-dependent solutions.
Limiting Beliefs to To-Do Items
Drag subconscious fears onto paper, where they lose their power and become solvable tasks.
Lower the Courage Required
The scarcest resource is courage, not genius — so design products and decisions to need less of it.
Nine Lives Exercise
List nine lives you'd be excited to live — all starting today — then pull the best one into your current life.
Patience vs Process Diagnostic
When something's stalling, know whether it needs more patience or a process intervention
Positional vs. Tactical Game
Don't die, then pour your energy into board position — tactics are the drawdown of value you've already earned.
Positive-Sum Dials (Levers You Don't Pull)
Build every monetization lever you can, then refuse to pull them — coordinate on the iterated game instead of defecting for short-term profit.
Scale the Bright Spots (Quit-vs-Persist Criteria)
Persist while you can still see the vision and find green shoots to scale; quit when the vision dies.
The Constructive Feedback Script
Deliver hard feedback with observable facts, shared-knowledge framing, and one clear leave-with action
The Founder Prenup
Talk through values, vision, conflict, decisions, and culture before you co-found
The Genie Framework
Assume success is guaranteed, then work backward to find what you'd actually pursue.
The Personal Operating Manual
A working-style 'read me' so teammates know how to work with you before friction starts
The Pre-Firing 'Crystal Clear' Conversation
Before you fire anyone, have the deal-breaker conversation that makes firing never a surprise
The Promotion-Denial Conversation
Deliver the no upfront, give the reasons, then paint hope for the future
The Talent Stack (Intersection of Uniqueness)
Stack three-to-five things you're uniquely good at and curious about so you know more than everyone else in that tiny space.
The Three Questions to End Every Meeting
Close every meeting with: what did we decide, who does what by when, and who else needs to know
The Toby Tornado (Compressed Change Management)
When you sense a project is wrong, compress the conflict into a short window, kill it, and reconstitute the team as founders of the next version.
Unquantifiable-First Decision-Making
Demote metrics to a support function and let taste, fun, and delight drive — because Goodhart's law means any metric-as-goal degrades.
Worse-First / Five-Year-Self Decision Test
Anything worth having gets worse before it gets better — so decide from your five-year self, not tomorrow.
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