Compress an overloaded week of startup, research, job-search, creator, or side-project work into one main bet, up to two microbets, essential maintenance, and an explicit kill list. Use when the user has too many parallel ideas, keeps adding tasks, needs a founder-like weekly operating rhythm, or wants every week to end with real external proof instead of a long completed-task list.
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name: one-week-founder-mode
description: "Compress an overloaded week of startup, research, job-search, creator, or side-project work into one main bet, up to two microbets, essential maintenance, and an explicit kill list. Use when the user has too many parallel ideas, keeps adding tasks, needs a founder-like weekly operating rhythm, or wants every week to end with real external proof instead of a long completed-task list."
license: MIT
metadata:
author: Joy T <101039451+FAIRY123456789@users.noreply.github.com>
tags:
- planning
- prioritization
- productivity
---
# One Week Founder Mode
A full calendar is not the same as a useful week.
## Workflow
1. Dump every active commitment, idea, obligation, and dependency.
2. Separate fixed obligations from discretionary work.
3. Choose **one main bet**: the result that most changes the next decision if completed this week.
4. Allow at most **two microbets** with strict time caps.
5. Define maintenance: tasks that keep existing systems, relationships, health, or obligations from deteriorating.
6. Create a **kill list**: tempting tasks that are intentionally not done this week.
7. For the main bet, define:
- external user or stakeholder;
- definition of done;
- evidence expected by Sunday;
- first irreversible dependency;
- one unblock action.
8. Plan by energy and dependency, not by filling every hour.
9. Midweek, review only three questions: Is the main bet still valid? What is blocked? What should be cut?
10. End the week by scoring evidence, learning, and continuation—not by task count.
## Output
Return:
- Main bet
- Two microbets max
- Maintenance
- Kill list
- Weekly sequence
- Midweek review
- Sunday evidence review
When everything is marked urgent, force ranking.