For the past two weeks, Patrick Sharpe and I have been living and working together non-stop.
Somehow, we're not burning out.
This feels like a flashback to our YC days: living at our "hacker flat," wake up, work, coffee, work, burrito, work, gym, work. Rinse and repeat.
The irony? We worked longer hours then, but felt less exhausted. The secret wasn't in working less - it was in having control over our time. We could hit the gym at 3pm. No commute wasted precious minutes. We could even cook right in our "office".
When we returned to London post-YC, the conventional 9-5 with commuting suddenly felt more draining than our 24/7 YC schedule.
So we made a decision: recreate our YC environment here in London. Our own hacker flat. A space where we work and live together, like a tribe. Claiming back control over our time, our environment, our rhythm.
The result?
We created an environment where work doesn't feel like work, but natural parts in the flow of our lives, where we get to express who we are in what we build. We're building faster. Thinking clearer. Living better.
And it's fucking awesome.