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If you haven’t watched the tv show Ted Lasso on Apple TV , you need to stop what you’re doing right now and binge all 3 seasons. I don’t care if you’re at work, at the gym, or talking to a friend. Watch it! The show is about how American college football coaching staff Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) and Coach Beard (Walt Whitman) from Kansas City get hired to coach an English football club named AFC Richmond. Knowing nothing about soccer, they take on the challenge. Because of hi

One of the biggest surprises stepping into an operator and advisory role was realizing how little space founders actually have to think. Not because they don’t want to. Because everything in the business still runs through them. In the short term, doing it yourself is often easier than coaching someone else. But over time, that tradeoff becomes expensive. Leadership at this stage isn’t about doing more. It’s about designing the business so progress can happen through other pe

That’s not a motivation problem. It’s decision fatigue. From the operator seat, I see this most often in companies where everything still routes through the owner. Not because they want control. Because decision ownership was never clearly communicated. It reminds me of a coffee cup with the air vent sealed. The coffee is there. The system exists. But nothing flows. In struggling or flat companies, this is one of the first patterns I notice: Work doesn’t move forward because