Founder Playbook

Mindset
Monday and Thursday are for working on my solo show Tuesday and Wednesday are for my interview shows that I do in my podcast and Friday is for everything else by setting these boundaries and focusing on one major task at a time I can make the most of my time

Time-box your week by business, not by task type

When you run multiple businesses, the temptation is to context-switch by feeling — "I'll work on the SaaS today because I'm in the mood." That destroys throughput. Assign explicit days to each business / output type instead: Mon+Thu solo essay, Tue+Wed interviews, Fri everything-else, weekends off. Each day has one identity. Decisions about what to work on collapse to checking the calendar.


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