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Skill You’ll Always Need to Avoid Routine + Checklist Do you know what distinguishes a large-scale entrepreneur from a "stall owner"? What sets an experienced, expensive developer apart from "the one who does the same thing five times cheaper"? Or why some managers have teams that run like clockwork, while others face endless failures, setbacks, and rework? To understand this, you need another important skill — the ability to abstract. But that’s not what I’m talking about right now. If you remove the context and look at the essence, all these situations are unified by one skill: the ability to build self-sufficient systems. What is it exactly? A self-sufficient system is a process, team, or structure that operates independently, without your constant involvement. Everything needed is already inside: ⁠✅ rules, ⁠✅ people or technologies, ⁠✅ tools, ⁠✅ autonomous optimization and improvements, ⁠✅ failure scenarios. Thanks to the skill of building self-sufficient systems, entrepreneurs can establish processes (or teams) that start working without their participation, allowing them to switch to other processes and build self-sufficiency within them. This is how they scale and avoid getting stuck in one place, creating one system after another, integrating systems into larger systems. Programmers, thanks to this skill, are able to build systems that are easy to support and improve, that won’t break with every change, and whose results are always predictable. 🧪 Checklist: Is Your Process Self-Sufficient? I’ve prepared a small checklist that can shed light on how self-sufficient a system or process is, based on any example from your work. Take any task or process (sending a proposal, preparing a report, gathering statistics) that has some input (data) and an expected final result, and check it against the list: 1. Does the process operate without your constant involvement? If you leave for a week, will it still be completed? 2. Is everything needed to start the process already inside the system? Do you need to manually search, negotiate, or "fetch" something each time? 3. Are all steps clear and executable without you? Are there instructions understandable to another person? 4. Is there a clear and repeatable result? Does the output always match what you expect? 5. Are errors in the process detected and corrected automatically or are they pre-planned? Does the system "see" when something goes wrong? 6. Do you need to manually make every decision? Are there predefined rules or algorithms? 7. Can this process be scaled — serve more clients or handle more tasks — without increasing time and stress? Does increased load break the system? 8. Can another person or an automated system perform it without reducing quality? Is it easy to delegate or automate? Results: ⁠6–8 “Yes” — You already have a good self-sufficient system. ⁠3–5 “Yes” — Almost ready, but there are vulnerable spots. ⁠0–2 “Yes” — It’s a manual process that depends on you. Creating self-sufficient systems is not magic nor an "innate entrepreneurial talent." It’s a skill that develops with practice. And you just need to start training it — and one day, you’ll look back and realize that you’re no longer "putting out fires," but managing a system like a conductor. If you want, I can review one of your processes that causes the most pain and highlight whether it’s possible to build a self-sufficient system within it.