A younger founder once asked me:
âSerhat, how many hours do you work in a week?â
I had to pause, because Iâve never counted.
In start-ups, work and life donât really split apart. And if you separate them, I donât think youâre a real founder.
âïž Daytime is for building,
đ Night is for dreaming about whatâs next.
If this was just a job with a salary, separating work and personal life would make sense.
But for a founder, itâs much more than that.
Thatâs why âworking a lotâ doesnât feel like the right measure. Itâs about how deeply you live in it.
⥠Awareness is key. To avoid burnout, you have to build resilience with both physical and mental practices.
What Iâm working on isnât about months, days, or even hours⊠itâs about optimizing minutes, like in 20-minute slots
Do you measure your hours, or just flow with it? đ€