A while back I told you I was booking a longevity retreat. I finally did it.

First real vacation of my life. A wellness hotel in Europe. IV drips, shots, physiotherapy, detox - the full biohacking menu. Every hour of every day was booked with something.

But the real experiment was simpler. For the first time ever, I deleted Slack and every work chat off my phone.

The first days my head wouldn't shut off. Then it started to slow down.

By the fifth day, I slept almost 9 hours. That hasn't happened in years.

The last 6 months had been quite stressful, and this reset was exactly what I needed.

I didn't reply to lawyers. I didn't read the emails our enemies kept sending. Still haven't. It's not even interesting anymore.

If you've been running non-stop for months, I strongly recommend doing something like this. Fully offline. No exceptions.

You don't realize how tired you are until you stop.

Now I'm back.

This week Kyiv got hit hard. Some of my team had a rough few days. And still - everyone's performing, focused, motivated. I'm proud of them.

Alex, my co-founder, has been doing a great job as CEO, even without much input from me. He brought fresh ideas and new ways of working to the team.

On the product side, we're cooking a lot right now. The team optimized a ton, and it was great to come back and test the new features this week - new AI, new analytics, new API, even a new Chatspace. We've been building all of this since last year, and we're rolling it out to everyone within the next few weeks.

P.S. flew first class. paid with miles 😬