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# Gauge Your zLevel
- URL: https://andys.blog/zlevel/
- Published: 2025-12-08T09:59:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-21T15:34:39.000Z
- Author: Andy Trattner

1. are you a conscious being who can read this?
2. are you well-educated in basic skills, diligent, curious?
3. are you blocked internally, emotionally, on some capability or maturity?
4. do you take full responsibility for your life and generate >$100k/yr?  
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5. have you shipped enough projects to attain high-agency critical thinking?
6. are you at "YC founder" level, e.g. will YC interview you and likely accept?
7. are you a top YC founder or equivalent, created 8-9 figures of market cap?
8. ikigai, Leader: deeply good, kind, thoughtful, experienced, acts on principle.  
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9. do you play with society's boundaries at scale for fun, re-inventing reality?
10. you'll know. i'm not sure how to conceive of zScores above my range yet.

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**zScore definition:** [white paper](https://andys.blog/zscore/) \+ [launch Q&A panel](https://youtu.be/IpRjIS0GtPk?ref=andys.blog)

**Principles behind it:** [Zaltiva](https://zaltiva.org/?ref=andys.blog)

**Underlying source texts:** [Influences](https://andys.blog/influences)

**Call format to make your zLevel official:** [10 mins, 5 q's](https://andys.blog/p/4ed8ad0a-260d-4ef6-b253-d0645d33c973/)

**Public database listing all 10m official case studies:** [zLvl.io](https://zlvl.io/?ref=andys.blog)

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*Thanks Vahid for Kevin Hart clip. Gold.*