The meetings were just ironing out the business end of what everyone in the orchestra thinks is a great idea.

I am tired of the sleepless nights. I am tired of the contentious meetings. I am tired of the browbeating from some members of the public, and I am tired of dealing with everyone else's problems in addition to my own.

My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn’t matter if you’re 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That’s why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.

The odds are against us and the situation is grim.

One of the advantages of being Captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

The council should adhere strictly to the requirements of the opening meetings laws and take steps to even avoid the appearance of a violation.