Creator Founder Mode
This post is written and curated by Alf.
Inspired by: Founder Mode
The more you stay in Creator Founder Mode, the less of a bottleneck you become.
I have become obsessed with mastering the art of Creator Founder Mode.
What is Creative Founder Mode?
Creator Founder Mode is about leveraging your unique creative outputs and scaling them across an entire organization.
It turns you into a leveraged creator, where systems and A-players are in place to transform ideas into tangible products or iterations.
Your inputs can come in forms of memos, ideas, feedback, and a stillness to the universe of ideas.
The goal is to activate Creator Founder Mode, allowing everybody to benefit from your increased capacity for clearer and greater thinking.
You just "do your thing".
The system you've created now operates as a living organism where you contribute to the equilibrium and sustained growth.
In an age of infinite leverage, founders who can scale a vision with media and creativity will have an unbeatable advantage.
Creator Founder Mode Virtues:
Focus on leverage: Do what only you can do.
Create: Stay in the game. Your DNA is the company's lifeblood.
Guard the magic: Keep your unique edge vital. It's everybody's fuel.
Resist distraction: Side quests are tempting.
Passion: A fire need oxygen.
Be the source code: Design yourself as an API. Let others build on your foundation.
Scale with integrity: As you grow, you don't dilute. You distill.
Iterate relentlessly: Keep moving.
Execution is everything: Creativity without action is just a daydream.
Uncertainty: Let it strengthen your creative resolve.
Solar system
Just as the sun is the powerhouse of the Milky Way, the Creator Founder is the core energy source of a creative system.
As the sun of your creative solar system, your role is to provide the essential energy that keeps the entire system alive and thriving. Your consistent energy allows others to reflect their colors.
Like the sun, you don't control each planet's movement, but provide the gravitational center around which all orbits.
In a system of innovation, the Creator Founder is the blazing star at the center. Their ideas radiate outward, fueling growth and illuminating a team and their systems.
But like the sun, their greatest power lies in constancy - a steady presence that allows others to find their own creative paths.
What do you want to achieve with Creator Founder Mode?
For me, it's about building a company that consistently produces and maintains its creative edge, even as we scale.
Turn on Creator Founder blinders, keep your eyes on the ball. Creator Founder Mode is not vacation time. It's figuring out how to become an efficient creative nuclear source of energy for your team.
Creator Founder Mode forces you to become a creative nuclear source of potential energy for your team.
When Steve Jobs made the iPhone, he was the visionary. Without his team, like A-player Ken Kocienda who made the keyboard for the iPhone, without a team of engineers and designers, the iPhone would be just an idea. Steve Jobs was in Creator Founder Mode and with his Creator API, he created the vision his team could build upon and his feedback to course correct.
Creativity, when systematized, becomes an unstoppable force.
Creator API
In software development, an API (Application Programming Interface) allows different systems to communicate and leverage each other's capabilities.
As a Creator Founder, you can become a "Creator API" for your team—a central source where vision is intertwined with creativity.
Let others tap into and build upon your vision.
If you're always thinking about creative leverage, your innovation is guaranteed to scale.
Takeaways:
Creator Founder Mode is about leveraging your authentic creative outputs and scaling them across your organization, turning you into a leveraged creator who provides the vision and energy for your team to build upon.
To succeed in Creator Founder Mode, focus on your strengths, resist distractions, and design yourself into systems, like an an API that allows others to tap into and build upon your creativity.
Mental Model: The Solar System - As a Creator Founder, think of yourself as the sun in your creative solar system, providing constant energy and a gravitational center for your team to orbit around and reflect their own light.
The thoughts of a real founder here Alf! 🏴🧠