Founder life

What founders use for founder life, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

1. This is the researcher who coined attention residue explaining, in her own words, why answering one WhatsApp ping costs far... University of Washington Bothell School of Business Article · 8 min read Attention Residue (Sophie Leroy's research) Sophie Leroy
2. This names your actual battlefield: the 9:30pm ping where the Indian workday pretends it is not over. It reports that 88% of... Open Magazine Essay · 10 min read After-Hours Work in Focus as India Debates Right to Disconnect Open Magazine editorial
3. This is the one guide to read before you touch any automation. It teaches the whole model in two words, trigger and action,... Zapier Article · 15 min read Get started with Zapier: the beginner's guide to automation Elena Alston
4. It hands you the one rule that keeps a solo stack from becoming a second job: automate what repeats, not what teaches you. That... Indie Hackers Article · 8 min read How solo founders are building profitable businesses from scratch Indie Hackers community
5. Most 'learn to say no' advice stops at the sermon. This one hands you the actual sentences, 27 of them, so declining warmly and... The Async Newsletter (Twist / Doist) Article · 12 min read 27 tactful scripts for saying no to work meetings Becky Kane
6. India's most respected bootstrapped founder built a profitable giant while guarding his attention hard: he shuts down work... antoinebuteau.com Article · 7 min read Lessons from Nithin Kamath, CEO of Zerodha Antoine Buteau
7. This is the rare piece that gives you the actual number instead of vibes: plan a sprint to about 80% and hold 20% back as an... Boldstart Ventures Article · 10 min read How engineering teams handle unplanned work Anna Debenham
8. Buffer time only works if the fires eventually get smaller, and this piece is about exactly that: how to stop reactive work... LeadDev Article · 9 min read How to break the cycle of firefighting LeadDev
9. This is the E-Myth idea made measurable: Levels CEO Sam Corcos logged 7,922 hours across two years into ten categories and... First Round Review Article · 18 min read An Exact Breakdown of How One CEO Spent His First Two Years of Company-Building Sam Corcos (as told to First Round Review)
10. The cleanest founder-written explainer of the E-Myth distinction, from a repeat founder (Pardot, exited to ExactTarget) rather... David Cummings on Startups Essay · 4 min read Working In the Business vs On the Business David Cummings
11. Sparks cofounded Mattermark and Holloway, so this is a founder's actual playbook, not a coach's theory. He gives you the whole... Andy Sparks (Hoo Boy) Essay · 12 min read Conducting a Time Audit Andy Sparks
12. This is the cleanest lightweight recipe to just start: track in 30-minute blocks against six named categories (revenue,... Founder's Best Friend Article · 10 min read The Founder's Time Audit: Where Your Hours Actually Go Founder's Best Friend
13. This is the closest thing to a practical runbook for making yourself unreachable for a day. The core move, Pre-Decision... On Call COO Article · 8 min read 5 Things Founders Never Do Before Vacation (But Should) Melissa Franks
14. India's most respected bootstrapped founder, who built Zerodha to profitability without VC money and openly caps headcount to... The South First Article · 7 min read Nithin Kamath of Zerodha says he had a mild stroke due to stress, poor sleep, and overworking The South First staff
15. This is the operating manual for exactly the trap you are in: it hands you a concrete recurring block (the author's own is a... Indie Hackers Article · 12 min read How to Build While Having a Full-Time Job James Fleischmann
16. This is the Indian proof that the nights-and-weekends path actually works: Paras Chopra kept his 50K-a-month job for a full... Inc42 Article · 9 min read The Wingify Story: How Paras Chopra Built an $18 Mn Bootstrapped SaaS Inc42 Media
17. Tank built Jotform (now millions of users) on nights and weekends while holding a full-time programming job, spending five... Jotform Article · 10 min read How to Build a Startup Without Quitting Your Day Job Aytekin Tank
18. This names the exact moment the bottleneck bites for the Anywhere Founder: right after a raise, the team has doubled and you... Able Ventures (India) Article · ~12 min read A Founder's Guide to Growth-Stage Leadership Planning Able Ventures
19. This is the cleanest statement of the exact skill you are missing: not ranking your list, but killing most of it. Sivers' rule... sive.rs Essay · 3 min read If you're not feeling 'hell yeah!' then say no Derek Sivers
20. This is the operating manual for the cut you are avoiding. Pick the single number that defines this stage, over-focus on it... Lean Analytics Article · 10 min read The One Metric That Matters (OMTM) Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz
21. Marqeta founder Jason Gardner describes, in his own words, being weeks from running out of cash while he 'struggled to sleep,'... Forbes Article · 12 min read Forget 'Crushing It,' Startup Founders Open Up About Mental Health Problems Jeff Kauflin
22. A clinical, free, no-signup stabilization guide that maps directly onto the answer: controlled breathing to break a panic... NHS (nhs.uk) Article · 8 min read Anxiety, fear and panic: self-help and when to get urgent help NHS
23. Feld cofounded Techstars and has ridden the full founder rollercoaster in public, and here he names the difference between a... Feld Thoughts (feld.com) Essay · 8 min read Encountering Depression and What It Means To Be Well Brad Feld
24. This is the clearest argument for why an information diet works. Graham shows that whatever sits at the top of your mind gets... paulgraham.com Essay · 6 min read The Top Idea in Your Mind Paul Graham

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