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Why we picked it India's most respected bootstrapped founder admits that until 2019 he was answering email at 3 AM, staying late, and working weekends, and then consciously rewired his own habits: going home early, dumping stray thoughts into Google Keep instead of firing off a 3 AM email to the team. It is the rare Indian founder writing honestly about defending his own pace, and it proves the point that structure is something you impose on yourself, not something the always-on default gives you.
Why 'a nice place to work' doesn't just happen
From Nithin Kamath (Zerodha) on Substack by Nithin Kamath 6 min read
- Kamath ran on a 3 AM-email, weekends-at-the-office pattern for years before recognizing it as a real burnout risk and stopping it deliberately.
- His concrete fix: capture stray thoughts in a note (Google Keep) instead of interrupting yourself and others in real time. A simple, copyable batching habit.
- The pace you set is the pace everyone copies; as a solo founder that is only you, so changing your own habits is the whole intervention.