How do you stay focused and productive?

I work a full 9-5 job, work on 3 personal projects, compose original music for kids' upcoming game, write and record songs as well. A friend asked me, how can you do all these things in parallel? I answered him - not in parallel. One day for each project - slower progress, but it works. How are you handling multiple projects?

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Fellow founders, what's one thing you STOPPED doing that made you faster?
I stopped redesigning the landing page. Changed nothing except my stress level... 🙄 😉

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i built a third of the product between 10pm and 3am.

not hustle, just the hours the noise stopped.

protect those hours.

#notetoself

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For years, I couldn't make myself do… anything.

Since I started building this iOS app:

- 9:30pm sleep, 6am wake up
- Lifting 3x a week, cardio 2x
- Meditation at least 10-20 minutes a day

None of this stuck when it was self-improvement for its own sake. I'd wake up early for a week, then sleep through the alarm and feel worse than before.

The app changed the equation.

Now there's a build waiting for me at 6am.

The workout isn't "fitness" it's "I need to be sharp enough to debug this."

The meditation isn't a practice it's "I need a clear head to make decisions."

The habits aren't the goal.
The build is.
The habits just make the build possible.

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I don't build at 5am.

I build Sunday night. Football in the background, glass of red, laptop open on something nobody is paying me for yet.

The week hasn't started, so nothing can interrupt it. Best two hours I get, every single week.

What's the slot you'd defend against anyone?

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I finally realised why I felt stuck for so long.

For years, I tried to learn everything and build everything at once. Instead of making progress, I kept splitting my focus.

So I simplified everything into just 3 priorities:
- Building Solandra
- Learning (one topic each week)
- Open Source Contributions

Now I know exactly what to build, what to learn, and where my time goes.

I'm committing to this system for the next 6 months.

Sometimes the biggest productivity boost isn't doing more - it's choosing less.

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Batch by task, not by platform. Write three ideas first, polish all three next, then schedule them together. Fewer context switches make a bigger difference than another productivity app.

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One of the biggest improvements in my work came when I stopped asking:

“What can I build?”

and started asking:

“What can I build that I can operate, explain, sell and hand over?”

Very different question.

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Everyone’s flying to San Francisco. I went to the Alps.

Before the AI conference, I deliberately went to Austria — and not to “unplug.”

In our industry, everyone optimizes compute, datasets, latency. Almost no one optimizes their own signal-to-noise. But the quality of your decisions as a founder is a function of your input signal. You can’t think ten moves ahead while standing inside someone else’s hype cycle.

Austria isn’t random travel. Quiet, clean, expensive enough to filter out the tourist noise. Here you hear yourself — not your X feed.

The best product insights don’t show up in an open-plan office. They show up at 1,800 meters, when the background noise finally shuts off.

Tomorrow, back in the race. Today, re-architecting. My own.

#AIfounders #DeepWork #parissummit

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Startup progress usually comes from 3 boring habits: ship something every week, make one small decision that moves in the right direction, and keep going long enough to learn. Consistency beats bursts. Direction beats perfection. Persistence beats resets.

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