Too many days are spent sitting on calls. The consequent meeting exhaustion I’m feeling makes me think about how to design a less busy life (albeit I only work three-day weeks these days, but they are *filled* with calls).
This week, outside of meetings, I’ve avoided day-trading crypto by watching videos by a titan of bootstrapping: ProfitWell’s founder, Patrick Campbell. As a result, I’m doubling down on our bootstrapper mentality. A mentality that allows me to live more radically; it means I can write sentences like the one in brackets above, and not risk my job from angry investors.
This time last week I was feeling altitude sickness as we summited the second highest mountain in Kenya. During the week, we inched towards product/market fit, with more onboarding calls. And, today I’m in a wooden cabin with Mont in the Aberdares reading about UX and UI, eating nettle mash potato in front of an open fire. In London, I worked every weekend. Here, in Kenya, I’ve found taking time away from my laptop, often in the mountains, makes my week 10x more productive. It avoids that week-to-week blur, where eventually everyone looks up from their keyboard and goes ‘oh shit it’s 2044? I’ve had no fun, what happened?’.
There is no electricity at this cabin, nor is there internet. My phone is about to die. So this week’s email is as brief and rambly as it has been fun to write: very.
Here’s a picture of the mountaineers. Have a great week exploring.
H
