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.

Your vision isn’t a fantasy - it’s information about what could be. Most founders don’t fail because they lack vision, but because they don’t know how to operationalize it. Read this to explore how to relate to your dream in a way that strengthens you, grounds you, and turns your most ambitious vision into something real.

Vision isn’t abstract inspiration - it’s a real function of your psychology. In this chapter, I map where vision lives in your anatomy, how it interacts with your thoughts and emotions, and why learning to access it changes the way you lead and build.

Founders commonly believe their emotions are a problem because they get habitually stuck in one of two emotional failure modes: reactivity or paralysis. Learn how to overcome both.

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.

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

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

Anger shows up in exactly the moments leadership is required. Whether it moves through you unconsciously or gets suppressed entirely, it will shape your relationships, your culture, and your ability to lead. Here’s how to work with it instead.

'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.

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.

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