What the number means
Three hours a week is not the problem. Being the only one who can decide is.
The hours are the symptom. The cause is that decision rights were never handed over, so every escalation routes back to the one person who cannot be replaced. That is the ceiling: not how hard you work, but how much of the company only runs when you are in the room.
It is also what a buyer prices. They are not buying what you built. They are buying what it does without you in it.
Let’s cut that number.

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