Rob Walling

When I first started my career, I was a task level thinker.

I just couldn't do multiple things at once.

I couldn't prioritize.

I couldn't manage it.

I couldn't keep all the plates spinning.

And then over the course of the first five-ish, six-ish years, I remember getting to the point where I was really comfortable running projects.

And I think I became a solid project level thinker at that point.

And then as I dipped my toe into becoming an entrepreneur, I wasn't an owner level thinker because I needed too much certainty.

I couldn't make hard decisions with incomplete information.

I didn't know how to do that.

And then it took me another five to eight years to really feel into it and to be confident in my own ability to trust my founder gut and to develop my founder gut to the point where I was making good decisions because that's what being an owner level thinker requires.

Welcome back to another episode.

Start up to the rest of us.

I'm your host, Rob Walling.

And in this episode, I'm going to dive into themed listener questions.

So if you don't know, I've recently started writing again, publishing essays for the first time really since about 2011.

And I'm doing that over at robwalling.com.

If you enter your name and email in any of the forms on that site, you can start receiving a weekly thought from me.

And some of these are mental models, they're frameworks, they're questions that I'm often asked.

by founders, whether that's from TinySeed on this podcast, in the MicroConf community, direct via email.