I work hard so I can play harder 🎮

Hey everyone! Hope you're all having a great week and getting some time to breathe!

I want to share something a bit personal today, because I think it explains why I care so much about what we're building here.

I'm a gamer. Always have been. Growing up, my dad worked in IT and used to bring home old computer parts, so my brothers, sisters and I each ended up building our own machines and playing games together. It was genuinely one of the best parts of my childhood. My brother and I actually still play games together to this day, it's one of our favourite ways to catch up.

That love of games eventually turned serious. I reached the highest rank in StarCraft II, which is a real-time strategy game widely considered one of the most mechanically demanding competitive games ever made. I built up a following streaming live online and made YouTube videos that got tens of thousands of views. What that world teaches you, that most people don't realise, is how to think in systems. You're constantly asking: what's the most efficient sequence of actions? Where am I losing time? How do I get more output from fewer resources? I carry that thinking into everything I do now.

These days I work hard, but I protect my downtime seriously. I'm an introvert at heart and gaming is genuinely how I recharge. That's just who I am.

Which brings me to why AI excites me, and also why it keeps me up at night sometimes.

The optimist in me looks at these tools and thinks: this is the thing that finally gives people their time back. If AI can handle the repetitive, time-consuming parts of running a business, maybe we all get to spend more time on what actually matters. Family. Friends. Rest. A few hours at the PC without feeling guilty about it.

The realist in me wonders if we'll just use the extra capacity to take on more work, more clients, more pressure. Whether the technology will free us or just raise the bar for what's expected.

I genuinely don't know which way it goes. Maybe both, depending on the person.

What I do know is that I'm building Found by Friday with the first version in mind. The goal here isn't to help you work more. It's to help you work smarter, so you get to choose what to do with the time you get back.

What do you reckon? Do you think AI will give us more freedom, or just more to do? Drop your honest take below, I'm curious 👇

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