Plot the Skill Gap Between You and Your Partner in 15 Minutes Open a shared Google Drive file download generator Sheet, label column A "Task", B "Me", C "Ally", D "Delta". List 20 core activities your joint venture calls for (Figma, cold email, SQL, TikTok ads, contract redlines, Kanban, etc.). In the next five minutes each of you rates 0–4 for every row: 0 = never tried, 4 = can teach. Conditional-formatting turns any gap ≥2 cells red—those are your choke points.

Ditch toggling between six browser tabs and a spreadsheet. Open FigJam, drop the raw brief onto a blank board, and waste 12 minutes tagging every requirement with green, amber, or crimson stickies. Rip the board as CSV, drag it into Notion, and—boom—you instantly own a living backlog that hooks to Slack. This lone 12-minute rinse shaves off 38 % of revision rounds later, per 2023 internal data from 72 product studios.

Stack three micro-rewards at quarter, midpoint and 100 % completion. Dopamine jumps are stronger when the prize is immediate and felt: a single sip of espresso, two minutes of balcony air, your favorite track. NeuroLeadership data show that bite-sized rewards stretch effort 42 % longer than a lone end-point bonus. Calendar the rewards the night before