Systems & Side-eyes

Systems & Side-eyes

The Founder Time Reclaim Audit

You didn't build a company to be its most expensive Slack notification.

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Katie Barnes
Feb 26, 2026
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Here’s something I see constantly: a founder who genuinely believes they’ve delegated well.

They handed off the task. They assigned the owner. They moved on.

Except… they’re checking in on it three times a day. Jumping into threads their team started. Making decisions their Head of CS should be making by now. Leading a zone they’re not even the best perso…

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