Founders only need to learn how to give three types of feedback to become a superhuman manager: Performance Feedback, Relationship Feedback, and Culture Feedback

Meeting with your direct reports should be some of the highest-leverage time you spend with your team each week. Here’s how to launch 1:1s for the first time.

Founders often mistake bad relationship hygiene for a bad relationship. Schedule a Founder Sync to strengthen your relationship along with your strategy.

Delegating is a knowledge transfer that allows you to step away from work and build trust in your team.

Giving feedback is one of the core tools in every founder’s toolbox. Founders typically need to start practicing this skill as soon as they’ve started working with a cofounder.

Feeling tension rise in relationship with your cofounder is normal, healthy, and expected.

Relationship debt is just like technical debt: It builds when founders avoid tough conversations and emotions, and it kills founding teams when left unchecked. Learn how a ‘Level 3 Conversation’ will clear relationship debt and keep your relationship healthy.

Trust is the invisible - but tangible - building block of relationship. Trust greases the wheel of execution and keeps relationships free of relationship debt.

A list of questions that cofounders commonly disagree about that you should start discussing *now*.

This exercise is helpful for founders when they’re in The Pinch - when there is simply too much for any single human to do under the constraints of physical time.

The function that guilt serves is that it's an elastic. It *snaps* us back into line.

A subtle inflection point worth listening to and learning from.

Realizing that anxiety serves a helpful function helps founders change their relationship to it in the moment.

Burnout takes many forms, but it's ultimately a disconnection. Learn about how you can reconnect, restore, and keep going.

Resentment speaks to an imbalance in the relationship that you're ultimately responsible for - and capable of - solving.

Confusion muddies our thoughts and protects us from taking clear action. Getting familiar with it allows us to build the confidence we need to take action.

'Self trust' is a synonym for confidence. Rebuilding it doesn’t require you to take the 'right' action, and it doesn't require you to believe in yourself either. All it takes is for you to make - and keep - small promises to yourself, over and over again.

Motivation is your personal source of energy - the emotional engine that drives your ambition into reality.

Start processing your emotionns in 4 easy steps using this simple exercise adapted from Tara Brach's work.

Every startup founder feels a huge volume of emotions. Learning to process your emotions - relating to them as data and incorporating them into your workflow - is a competitive advantage.