The Startup Dad Manifesto (Or: How I Learned to Stop Optimizing and Just Watch Cartoons)
Two types of meetings will humble you as a founder. Investor meetings, obviously. And then there is bedtime.
blog / medium archive
Published notes.
Essays from Medium about Serenity, startup culture, product, mental health, teams, fatherhood, discipline, and whatever refused to leave my head.
Today's dad note: these articles were written between midnight and ambition. side effects include introspection, mild dread, and an urge to start a newsletter nobody asked for.
articles
Generational Drift: From the Asphalt Playground to the Algorithm
From scarcity to saturation: how technology reshaped attention, work, identity, and the way generations learn to wait.
Startup Culture Rewards Anxiety (And Calls It Ambition)
On ambition, fear, fatherhood, Serenity, and the moments where building starts asking for too much.
Boring Wins: The Startup We’re Building Isn’t Cool — It’s Built to Last
Patience, clarity, traction, and why discipline may be the most rebellious startup move left.
Your Pitch Deck Is a PowerPoint of Lies — and You’re All Right
A startup pitch deck autopsy, with just enough truth to keep the theater ethical.
What LinkedIn Does Not Tell You About Running a Startup
The version of startup life that does not fit neatly under a polished founder selfie.
Mental Health as a KPI: What If Startups Measured Calm, Not Chaos?
Why calm should be treated as operational infrastructure, not decorative HR language.
The Hidden Burnout Crisis: Why Every Young Innovator Is at Risk
Part I of the mental jungle: burnout, hustle culture, and why exhaustion is not strategy.
The Startup Gym: Why Founders Should Coach Like They’re Chasing a Championship
What founders can borrow from coaches: rhythm, reviews, team chemistry, and a little locker-room honesty.
Build Talent, Don’t Import It
Jugoplastika, interns, local talent, and why the best teams develop people instead of shopping for stars.
When Roadmaps Lie: Startup Illusions and the Power of Fake Structure
Roadmaps as useful fiction, fake structure as training wheels, and why Notion sometimes deserves an Oscar.
Chapter II: So… Who’s the Adult in the Room?
Post-launch silence, customer questions, and the horrifying discovery that the adult is you.
Launching at the Edge of Exhaustion
All-nighter code pushes, fiscalisation panic, launch beer, and the first real booking.
Startups Are Just Group Projects With Higher Stakes and Less Sleep
The messy, ridiculous, weirdly rewarding story of building serenity.hr from a gas station conversation.
Broken Laptops, Dead Cars, and Our Franken-Office Startup
No budget, no backup plan, a homemade office, and enough chaos to accidentally level up.