Each memo follows the same shape: the situation, the decision, the insight, the sign-off. Three to seven minutes. No frameworks, no charts you've already seen.
Five hours a week, four people on the call, one person doing the talking — me. The cut, the replacement, and the metric I'm watching for two weeks before I call it.
We were paying a contractor $1,800/month to produce social tiles. Saturday afternoon, one Cursor session, and the contract is the line item I cancelled this morning.
Nine of the last twelve hires across the portfolio that didn't stick failed at the spec, not the person. Here's the thing I write before the job post now.