The Availability Trap
The more hours a founder spends being instantly available, the fewer real decisions they actually make.
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The mechanism
The chart is a single line sliding downward. Left to right is how many hours a day the founder spends on chat and email; up and down is how many real decisions they make in a week. As the always-on hours climb, the decisions drop from nine a week to barely one. Boxes along the line mark the slide from "available for what matters" down to "bottleneck, not leader."
Part of Persistence. Infrastructure that keeps growth compounding past founder heroics.