How I use delegation to get more done | Swizec Teller

Understanding how to delegate is perhaps the most valuable thing an entrepreneur can learn. Doing everything yourself does not scale. Being able to delegate well is akin to being able to lead well, and frankly, to being able to get shit done. And effective delegation is not easy. When it comes to managing a team, there is no such thing as “set it a

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Every night, I list a half-dozen tasks with priority rankings. My morning starts with Codex creating branches for each task.

I always have at least two Claude Code terminals open, one for my number-one priority (usually my most complex problem), another for a secondary task. While waiting for generations in one, I switch to the other. I avoid lookin

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importance of that element to the overall success of the project. Then, as I move through the process, I push myself to keep pace with the goals I’ve set, producing good enough work within the time I have to spend and giving myself permission to circle back if I still have additional hours at the end. This will ensure that I don’t over-invest in le

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found myself effortlessly breaking down my projects into manageable chunks, a strategy I’d long agreed with in theory but never properly implemented. Now it became the intuitive thing to do: it was clear that if I nominated ‘write book’ or ‘move house’ as one of my three tasks in progress, it would clog up the system for months, so I was naturally

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Tasks in the Zone of Incompetence are the things that other people probably do better than you (e.g., fix your car), and therefore you should outsource if they don’t give you joy. Tasks in the Zone of Competence are the things that you do just fine, but others are as good as you (e.g., clean your bathroom), and therefore you should outsource if the

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