I've seen, and read many, many of these kind of articles on how to evaluate potential co-founders (they're mostly generated as part of a shutdown, and I get it,

I've seen, and read many, many of these kind of articles on how to evaluate potential co-founders (they're mostly generated as part of a shutdown, and I get it, there were a lot of feelings involved). I put forth the problem, that evaluation is actually the -relatively- easier part; finding startup cofounders who both operate at sufficiently high levels of competence, at skills that are complimentary to yours, and can operate a startup (ie operating under conditions of knightian uncertainty/Goal ambiguity/Isotropy) is the very, very difficult challenge.