Founder Productivity

If your calendar controls you, your business will too. It’s easy to fall into a reactive loop—back-to-back meetings, pings, emails, team check-ins. The result? Zero time for strategy, zero focus, and a whole lot of movement without momentum. The solution? Stop reacting to your calendar and start designing it. Here’s how to reverse-engineer your schedule […]

If you’re leading a startup or scaling a team, you’re probably drowning in tasks—calls, emails, product decisions, approvals, recruiting, and more. The myth? That the best leaders do it all.The truth? The best leaders know what to keep—and what to get off their plate now. Here’s how to use a decision matrix to make those

Every founder worries about burn rate.But there’s a hidden tax most ignore—and it compounds faster than payroll. It’s context switching.Jumping between Slack messages, sales calls, product planning, hiring, investor decks… all in the same hour. It feels like work. But it’s really friction. And it bleeds the one thing you can’t raise more of: focused

Founders love big moves.Launches. Pivots. Fundraising rounds. Market entries. But the truth? Most startup growth doesn’t come from bold leaps.It comes from tiny, intentional habits—practiced consistently by the leadership team. Those rituals? They’re the compounding engine behind team alignment, clarity, and execution. Let’s break down the daily, weekly, and quarterly rituals that actually move the

Startup founders don’t need another productivity “hack.”They need a reality check. Because your problem isn’t that you need to wake up earlier, batch emails, or try the latest app.Your problem is not knowing where your time is actually going. And that’s why time audits—not time hacks—are the hidden weapon for startup execution. Why Time Hacks

Ask any founder about their five-year plan and you’ll hear ambition.Ask about their next 90 days and you’ll learn whether they’re actually making progress. In startup life, long-range plans are often exercises in fiction. The market shifts. The product evolves. Your customer’s needs change. That’s why the smartest founders don’t anchor to five-year forecasts—they operate

What do Isaac Newton, Virginia Woolf, and modern B2B founders have in common? A surprisingly powerful habit: keeping a commonplace book. Once used to collect handwritten quotes and insights, this tool has evolved into something even more useful in today’s AI-powered, content-saturated world. In this article, we’ll explore how a digital commonplace book—especially when built

Let’s get real—founder productivity isn’t about the latest app or some 17-step morning routine. It’s about momentum.And the best productivity systems aren’t complex—they’re consistent. After 20+ years building agencies and advising SaaS and FinTech startups, here’s the simple system I’ve seen work over and over. No fancy dashboards. No $100/month tools. Just clarity, rhythm, and

If you’re a startup founder, here’s the hard truth: your weekly plan is either fueling growth—or feeding chaos. You don’t need another color-coded calendar or Notion template graveyard. You need a system that cuts through the noise and helps you stay focused on high-leverage work. This is the weekly planning framework I use (and teach)

Founders don’t need more tools—they need leverage. Time is your most valuable asset, and every wasted hour is opportunity cost you don’t get back. The good news? We’re in a golden age of AI for productivity. The right AI tools can help you make decisions faster, communicate more clearly, and eliminate time-wasting tasks that drain