Five years in: an honest founder letter from Chris at Metalympics
What we’ve built, what didn’t work, and what I’m focusing on next. Shared publicly, just this once.
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NBN.Not Busy Notes.
Honest field notes from inside ambitious work: the systems, decisions, failures, and tradeoffs that keep the work from becoming the whole life.
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Field notes from building, running, teaching, and selling. Each issue opens at notbusy.beehiiv.com.
A Not Busy day is not an empty day.
A full day can be Not Busy if it is owned.
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Teaching
Designing an AI course at HKU at 24
Teaching AI is forcing me to make the noise calmer.
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Building
I’m bad with names. So I built a system.
Being Not Busy means my brain cannot be the only place everything lives.
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A meeting is not done until the context is retrievable.
The best AI tools are not always flashy. Sometimes they just make context survive.
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The work didn't get smaller. The system got calmer.
I thought busy meant too much work. I think I was wrong.
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Busy is not having a lot to do.
Some full days are owned. Some empty days are not.
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