Commit and send it
The mountain doesn't care about your plan.
I snowboard and mountain bike. It always comes down to the same thing: pick a line, commit, send it. You have a plan for getting to the bottom, but how it actually goes you only find out once you've committed. The mountain doesn't change for you. You adapt to it, and to everything else.
The same at work
Fifteen years in finance and operations, across four countries, taught me the same thing the slope does. You can plan the raise, the budget, the hiring roadmap. Reality still arrives on its own terms.
The job isn't to force the plan through. It's to read what's in front of you and adapt fast, without losing the line. Corporate first, then VC, then startups, most recently at GitStart.
What changed me
Twins in 2020. I made a choice most operators don't: cut work to the financial minimum and be a father first. Four years of that taught me more about efficiency than any framework ever did. If you don't put time under a microscope, you waste it.
Where that led
So now I do one thing, on purpose: run finance and operations for founders, fractionally, so they get back the hours they were losing to admin and half-owned decisions. It's the same itch behind FoundersBoxx.