Lately I’ve been noticing how much mental fragmentation comes with trying to build things as a founder.
Especially as an international in the Netherlands, while constantly switching between product ideas, partnerships, narratives, community building, meetings, follow-ups, LinkedIn conversations, AI experiments, and the day-to-day reality of just trying to execute.
At some point I realized the problem wasn’t lack of ideas anymore.
It was the amount of signals, context, and open loops living only in my head.
That’s partly what pushed me toward the idea of a “Founder OS”.
Not another productivity tool or CRM. More like a personal execution layer that helps reduce friction between thinking and doing.
Still early and messy, but I have a feeling more founders will eventually build internal systems that match how they actually think and operate, instead of forcing themselves into workflows that were never designed for them.