The reason I decided to move to San Francisco for a month was a talk by Paul Graham.
In the video, he argues that ambitious founders should spend some time in Silicon Valley because it's one of the few places in the world where exceptional founders, investors, engineers, and ambitious people are concentrated in the same area. Being around that kind of environment creates opportunities and perspectives that are hard to replicate anywhere else. For the next 30 days, I'm keeping things pretty simple.
First, I want to force myself to speak English every day. My spoken English isn't great, but that's exactly why I'm here. Instead of worrying about sounding stupid, I just want to get comfortable talking to people and putting myself out there.
Second, I want to build more and overthink less. I've spent enough time reading startup essays and thinking about ideas. This month is about talking to users, building things, and shipping.
Third, I'm trying to figure out whether the problem I'm exploring is actually worth spending years on. Right now I'm interested in AI agents for global trade and logistics operations, but I don't have the answer yet. That's part of the reason I came here.
And finally, I want to meet people who are obsessed with building. I'll probably spend a lot of time at hackathons, founder events, and random coffee chats. Hopefully I'll meet some future founders, engineers, collaborators, or maybe just friends who are on a similar path.
I don't really know what the next 30 days will look like.
That's kind of the point.