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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.
The Founder Sync
Most cofounder conflict isn't a relationship problem — it's a process problem. The Founder Sync is a weekly check-in structure designed to keep cofounders aligned, reduce relationship debt, and actually talk about trust before things get hard.
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.
Time Audit
When there's too much to do and no clear path through it, most founders spin. This step-by-step time audit helps you define what actually needs to happen this quarter — and cut everything else loose without guilt.
Processing Your Emotions is a Competitive Advantage
Founders are brilliant thinkers. But a psychology that runs entirely on cognition is a single-threaded system — and single-threaded systems aren't resilient. Here's what you're missing.
What It Means to Scale Yourself
"Take care of your mental health" is necessary advice — but for founders, it's not enough. Your startup will demand that you grow, not just recover. Here's what scaling yourself actually means.