You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.

Usually when you hire more engineers, you actually don't get that much more done, you actually sometimes get less done.

You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job.

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.

You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.