Frameworks

Intelligence, Energy, Integrity

Screen every partner and hire on three traits and refuse to compromise on any of them.

The Four Non-Delegables

Delegate everything except recruiting, fundraising, strategy, and product vision.

The Warren Buffett Three-Part Test

Screen every founding team on high energy, high intelligence and high integrity.

Curate People: Geniuses Only

Hire for capability, never for slots, and treat any compromise on talent as an attack.

The Company-Wide AI Build Week

Stop all project work for a week; every employee builds what they think matters most.

Taking Children Seriously

Replace coercion with access — learning only happens by the learner's own creativity.

The Random Interview Test

Let a candidate interview any teammate at random and judge whether they would still join.

Protect the Means of Error Correction

Judge any system by whether it can still find and fix its own mistakes.

The New Knowledge Test

Screen candidates on whether they generate original ideas, not on credentials.

The Poverty of Compromise

Run one side's real idea rather than a middle option nobody believed in.

The Fully Interconnected Graph Organization

Replace hierarchy with peer-to-peer routing by hiring nodes smart enough to self-organize

The Verification Flywheel

Keep participation cheap enough to be a default habit, then defend the norm.

Finite-Weight Principles

Hold principles seriously without granting them infinite weight

Sign Off on Consequences, Not Lines

Replace line-by-line review with an accountability statement backed by an evaluator.

Popper's Removability Test

Judge a system by how cheaply it removes bad rulers and policies without violence.

The Stag Hunt Team

Build the smallest high-trust team that can still take down the stag.

Total Information Awareness for Operators

Wire an agent into every company system so the founder sees each team unfiltered.

The Enhancement Factor Test for Relationships

Judge a relationship by how much more than double it makes you.