Founder series · 6 essays
The founder series. Six essays.
What I would have wanted to read at twelve people, twenty people, and forty people. Operating cadence, the decisions only you should make, how to stop being the routing department, the actual hiring math, the Friday summary, and why memory beats prompting.
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Essay 01 · 3 min read
Why operating cadence beats clever tools
Buying software does not fix a broken operating rhythm. What rhythm actually is, what AOS borrowed from EOS and Scaling Up, and the parts we left out on purpose.
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Essay 02 · 3 min read
The five decisions only you should make
The five approval points inside AOS, why they exist, and why every other decision in your business is someone else's job (or your agentic team's).
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Essay 03 · 4 min read
How to stop being the routing department
The most expensive job most founders hold, and how to leave it.
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Essay 04 · 3 min read
The 14-month $5.3M hiring plan you should not run
The fully loaded math on hiring a 61-person team in year one. Why the dollar number is the easy part.
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Essay 05 · 3 min read
Founder summary: the meeting you cancel
The Friday founder summary replaces the standing leadership status meeting in most weeks.
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Essay 06 · 3 min read
Memory beats prompting
Why operating memory (decisions, blockers, rationale that carry across missions) does more than any prompt-engineering trick.
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