It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.

At first when you start a company, everything's gonna feel like a mess and it really should. It should feel like everyday there's a new problem, and what you're doing is fundamentally triaging.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people.

The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice.

Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.