The insight that procrastinators can be productive by working on slightly less important tasks is underrated. The problem is it requires self-awareness about which task you're avoiding — most procrastinators don't have that clarity in the moment.
The risk calibration point is the most important one. Automating commodity tasks is easy. Automating the thing that makes you different is where founders get themselves in trouble — you can optimize your way out of your own advantage.
Boring is underrated. Solve a real problem, charge money, grow slowly with real revenue. The unglamorous path has a much higher success rate than the raise-and-scale playbook. What's the most 'boring' decision Plausible made that turned out to be the right one?
Yes, the pattern is very recognizable. "It's worth noting that...", "This ensures that...", bullet points for everything.
The irony is that AI is most useful for tasks where the output doesn't need to sound human — running checks, flagging issues, structured analysis. Code review is a good example: nobody cares if the comment sounds robotic, they care if it caught the bug.