Lithoid to avoid needing food.
Nutritional Plenitude for Food policy.
Planned economy for Economic Policy.
Huge taxes for Tax fee.
Tweak policies higher if a resource is not breaking even, then when you get around to building a new district, drop the subsidy.
If you are low on Electricity, do not build new districts, wait for High-Energy Capacitors to research.
Build a corporate branch office on your own planet, it can keep your amenities up, or increase trade. You can build multiple commercial forums.
You can get Habitats pretty early and offload mining,research,consumer goods, alloys, and fuel. Disable Enforcer jobs since they are pretty useless.
Robots assemble slowly but if you set Servitude for Artificial Intelligence policy, you can get the early stages of the robot rebellion event chain, which can give you 2 robots