4 Day Founder Friday Newsletter - First! Now Live!

Hi there! Welcome to the first “four-block” note designed to win back an entire work-day, every single week.

⚡ FAST WIN (4-Minute Tactic)

The 10-Minute Good Time Journal Sprint

Grab the template → Designing Your Life - Good Times Journal
Replay yesterday, line-by-line.
Label every task (+) if it fueled you, (–) if it drained you.
Circle any “-” tasks > 15 min.
Decide—right now—will you Automate, Delegate, or Delete them?

Most founders who run this exercise once a week free up three-plus hours before they even finish their Monday coffee. Set a timer for ten minutes and see what you uncover.

🔍 FOUNDER DEEP-DIVE

Blueprint in 48 Hours: How We Built the 4-Day Founder Framework

On Monday morning my desk was a swirl of sticky notes that said things like burnout, shiny-object syndrome, and too many meetings. By Wednesday night those notes had become the living framework you’re reading now—the 4-Day Founder Framework (4dFF).

Here’s the short film version:

Hour 1: Pulled last quarter’s Good-Time Journals, circled every low-energy pattern.
Hour 7: Mapped three core content pillars (Clarity, Autonomy, Energy) onto a four-day work rhythm.
Hour 19: Prototyped a Notion board so simple even my six-year-old could drag tasks into it.
Hour 27: Recorded the entire build on Loom, invited 200 solopreneurs to watch, and held a live AMA.

The big lesson: when you give every idea a home, decision-fatigue dries up—and free time appears like magic.

▶ Watch the recording of me making & steal the template → Builder’s Vault Recordings

🛠 FREEDOM TOOL OF THE WEEK

FDFF-CRM Autopilot — Your Lead Inbox, Self-Filing

While the framework took shape, I also built a tiny automation that’s already saving me from inbox chaos.

What it is:

A Make + Airtable scenario that catches every new subscriber, assigns a unique ID, drops the data neatly into Airtable, and sent a warm Welcome email - no coding, no sweating.

Why it matters: