Originally published on AIdeazz — cross-posted here with canonical link.

I used to believe serious building required serious sitting. The desk, the monitor, the four-hour uninterrupted block. Then I spent a week failing to find any of those things.

I'm in Panama City one day, a coffee shop in a city I barely know the next, always between meetings or waiting for flights. For months I treated this as a building problem. I wasn't productive because I didn't have the right setup. I was waiting for conditions that never came.

That was the wrong diagnosis.

The taxi ride that changed how I build