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The User Manual for Founder Psychology
Drawn from thousands of hours coaching YC Founders, The User Manual for Founder Psychology contains essays and practical frameworks that help founders build resilience, trust, and authentic leadership as their startups scale.
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The Three Types of Feedback
There are only three kinds of feedback a founder ever needs to drive performance or correct behavior. Three scripts to memorize. Three tools that will make you a superhuman manager. Here they are.
How to Implement Effective 1:1s
1:1s are one of the highest-leverage tools a founder-manager has. Most don't start using them until things start breaking down. Here's how to set them up before you need them — and how to run them well.
Delegating
Successful delegation isn't hand-holding and it isn't abandonment. It's a specific knowledge transfer with a defined structure. Here's exactly what that structure looks like — and why most founders get it wrong.
Guide to Effective Feedback
Most feedback backfires because it's vague, personal, or poorly timed. Here's the criteria for feedback that actually lands — with examples, a simple framework, and the language to make it work.