Founder life & changing your mind
Can I keep building without losing myself?
A company can change faster than its founder's understanding of the job. Work that used to feel productive may stop helping. Success can create obligations you did not intend to take on.
This collection leaves room for that uncertainty. The essays are personal accounts, not a promise that a framework resolves founder life. Use the decision review to separate what happened from the story you tell about it. When the evidence changes, recording the change is more useful than making the original decision look inevitable.
Questions worth answering
- Which responsibilities have changed since I made the plan?
- What am I preserving because it works, and what am I preserving from habit?
- What would I do differently with the evidence I have now?
Start here
Review a founder decision without rewriting the past
Separate evidence from hindsight, record what changed, and decide whether to keep going, pivot or stop.
Read the guide and use the worksheet →Use your own numbers
Mobility Score
Assess your mobility across visa status, revenue, jurisdiction, and optionality.
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Dependency Score
Measure how dependent your business is on you across 6 dimensions: revenue, decisions, clients, knowledge, execution, and relationships.
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From the field
Personal accounts behind the questions. Each essay reflects when it was written.