I have no office. No coworking membership. Some days, no cell signal. And I've shipped more from this setup than I did from any open-plan, stand-up-at-9, Slack-all-day environment I've been part of. The "always-on founder" is a performance more than a practice. Constant visibility is something you do when you're not sure the work speaks for itself. It fills the gap between the thing you've shipped and the thing you're trying to build next. Going off-grid didn't slow me down. It made me honest about what was actually work versus what was activity that looked like work from the outside. The founders I respect most are often the hardest to reach right before something ships. That's not a coincidence.