I'm modeling ourselves after Valve, which strongly emphasizes on-site. Valve gives its folks tons of latitude and freedom in exchange for working together in a tightly-knit culture.

I'm not a stickler for showing up to work on time, and I'm a late riser / night owl myself. But the energy of being in a room together physically is extremely hard to beat.

I'm not doing this to micro-manage. I don't have time for that. I'm doing this to be a better version of myself. I get energy from working close to others, and I voraciously learn from my peers. I want people teaching me and helping me be better every single day. That might be selfish, but I thrive in that environment.

What we're doing is weird and experimental and there's a metric ton of discovery in literally every path we take. A culture built around documenting and reading notes isn't going to be fast enough. I'm more hands on than someone who can write 6-pagers and read everyone else's - like Shia LaBeouf's "just do it" energy.

I understand that this isn't a great fit for everyone, and I'm sorry.

I'm not allergic to remote once we're bigger, but we have an enormous mandate, and I want us to tackle it like an RPG final boss in the trenches together. We have a lot to build and prove and learn. Doing it together in person reduces the network hop effects and leads to more serendipity and exchange.

In a years' time, I want us to have built open source alternatives to large portions of the most used software. I want us to create a considerable shake up. I want us to have built new infrastructure to make the web more distributed and more P2P.

I think we stand a better chance if we're in a room together, hacking and engineering together. That's what my gut tells me.

I make films too, and that's frankly something that could never be fully remote.