How to Build a Business That Doesn't Depend on You

The bottleneck isn't your calendar. It's that the criteria live in your head and the work happens somewhere else. Delegating a task while keeping the decisions forces people to guess from limited evidence.

Facts vs Criteria vs Judgement

• Facts. Prices, steps, contact lists. (Easy to write, solves little alone).
• Criteria. How you decide whether something is good enough. Rules for refusing clients. (The core bottleneck).
• Judgement. Truly non-transferable decisions. (Much smaller than it feels).

Descriptive vs Executable

The gold rule: Correct the rule, not the output

Every time you fix a draft instead of the instruction behind it, you buy short-term quality and preserve permanent dependency. Fix the rule upstream so the error never returns.

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