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Most days I wake up around 6am and go for a couple of dives, as I'm working on my Divemaster certification in the mornings. Great deal, if anyone's interested- you pay $700 for the course and get unlimited dives for as long as you're working on your certification, which can be dragged out to four months of diving every day. Plus, it's on a Thai island (Koh Tao), so cost of living is quite cheap. $200/month for a bungalow, and $1.50 for some incredible phad thai.

Get back around noon from diving, get some lunch, work until 2-3am. Likely too much, but in the early startup phase of doing a startup there's simply a lot of work to do.

As an aside, I don't really understand the whole weekend thing, if it's necessary to take a break from your day to day life then there's probably something wrong with your day to day life.

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I'm actually interested in spending a few months in Thailand. Quit my job a few weeks ago so I'm going to be relaxing at first, then work on the first project I have planned while continuing to travel.

How's the internet access where you are? Do you ever do anything else than diving for fun? Found Ko Tao on Wikipedia and it sounds great, but I'd like to see other parts of Thailand too. Have you been around?

My e-mail is in my profile if you prefer that.

Someone else emailed me asking as well, I'm thinking I'll have to write a blog article on heading out here...

But yeah! Email sent. Short answer for those interested:

Internet access is... acceptable. I brought an Airport Express and upon arriving at the scuba resort here I just asked them if I could plug it in. They'd been hoping to setup wireless for a while but hadn't had a router, so they were fine with it. Voila, wireless. Problem being, it's usually 5-20kb/s, with my co-founder getting up to 200kb/s. I think it's because he has Wireless N to my Wireless B/G. Should have upgraded to a newer laptop before leaving, but live and learn.

Sure, hanging out and talking with friends at one of the beachside bars, going driving around the island and exploring, or reading/writing. I'm pretty easy to please when it comes to having fun, just give me a great conversation in a cool locale, whether that be a SF coffee shop, a BA tango club, or a Koh Tao beach, and I'm good to go.

Haven't been around, as of yet. Upon getting into Bangkok's airport I booked a domestic flight on over to Koh Samui and got there three hours after arriving in Bangkok. Koh Samui was a lot more touristy than Koh Tao, and in general just seemed to be developed too quickly. When I first got there I was amazed (beach! warm weather! jungle!), but in retrospect I prefer Koh Tao by leaps and bounds.

If anyone else has any questions, I'm not great about checking Hacker News comments, so feel free to hit me up by email as well, it's in my profile.

I have to disagree, because if you don't allow yourself a break than you end up wearing yourself out, which, in the end, sucks. On weekends I would say you should at least take 1 of the days off to relax. It will really help you during the week to peak on performance.

You might have missed the "going diving in a tropical paradise every morning" part of my post :)

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