This is Lenz' blog. Lenz is a ecosystem builder, serial entrepreneur and punk that goes deep in tech and wide in startups.
I don't believe in work-life balance. I believe in intense times and cruise times. Right now is an intense one, and I'm trying to understand why this one feels harder than usual.
Agent-based coding ships fast. It also hits the architectural rewrites faster. That's the part nobody talks about.
A few months ago I wrote about a micro-vc that isn't one. The first product from that experiment is live. It's called MarkMesh. Here is why this was the first one to build.
We're selling the house in the Algarve, we're selling Fonte do Palheiro. Here is how this happened. In 2019, I started my sailing journey full-time. For three years we lived on the boat, moving from place to place, learning what it means to build a home out of whatever you can carry. Then in 2022 we arrived in the Algarve.
Lenz is building a general agent that learns and develops skills as it grows. He'll explain how OpenClaw works internally, why the current approach isn't suited for non-developers, and how he's rebuilding it in Elixir to create an agent anyone could use — including his mum.
I built this because I was tired of trying things and failing at them. Not because I didn't have the tools. I had enough productivity stuff to stock a library. Just no system that actually stuck.
After six years of silence, I'm back. The world has gone mad, but chaos and opportunity are the same thing. Here's what I've been building: a micro VC where friends pool experience, not money, to build small ventures solo.
