Topic

Founder fatigue and energy

Protecting attention, sustaining capacity, and recovering when the load gets heavy.

Self

The Founder's Time Audit

You are working 80 hours and still slipping. Track where your week actually goes and find the work only you can do.

Self

Protecting Your Energy

Stop running on adrenaline. Set the daily and weekly habits that keep the business alive without breaking you first.

Self

Keeping Your Edge

AI is doing more of your thinking and your judgment is getting quieter. Keep the decisions that have to stay yours, yours.

Self

Founder Isolation and Peer Networks

Nobody around you is in the same role. Build the two or three peers and one advisor who make hard decisions less lonely and faster.

Self

Pricing Fear

You quote below your worth and rationalise the discount as strategy. See where the wiring comes from and how to repair it before the next quote goes out.

Power and Judgment

Building Your Inner Circle

Cofounder, partner, and advisor lines have blurred and decisions are getting messier. Reset the small group of people closest to the business.

Power and Judgment

Power When the Machine Does the Work

The old way to hold power was to be the only one who knew. AI reads everything now. Here is the power that survives it.

30-Day Quick Start

Thirty daily exercises across four weeks. Each day produces one written artifact. By Day 31 you have a working map, named dysfunctions, one repaired process, and a 90-day plan.

The Founder's Library

The books that shaped how the playbook thinks. Read in the order that matters. Authored by Alistair.