01
Daily
- Work on the highest-leverage bottleneck.
- Talk to customers or users.
- Ship something useful.
- Review critical numbers.
- Resolve blocking decisions.
02
Weekly
- Review growth.
- Review retention.
- Review revenue and cash.
- Review product progress.
- Talk directly to users.
- Identify the current bottleneck.
- Choose the next highest-value experiment.
03
Monthly
- Reassess product-market fit.
- Review unit economics.
- Review hiring needs.
- Review capital allocation.
- Review strategic assumptions.
- Delete low-value initiatives.
04
Core Principles
- Build something people want.
- Stay close to customers.
- Move quickly.
- Use manual effort before automation when it creates learning.
- Do not confuse activity with progress.
- Solve the bottleneck.
- Reason from fundamental constraints.
- Test important assumptions.
- Control costs.
- Protect runway.
- Hire for real capability.
- Optimize the whole system.
- Let evidence update beliefs.