EF Form begins?

The first week of EF officially running

You’ve probably seen my post about starting EF so you know that this isn’t the absolute start to my journey here, but today was the first day of FORM so it’s supposed to be different. I have to say not much has changed, but some notable things have, so since I’ve seen a bunch of posts about starting FORM from those around me decided might as well post what it’s been like for myself.

There is something about EF that I have to say is admittedly really cool. Most days you are sitting in an office working on whatever you pivoted to three days ago trying tog find the right people to speak to in order to prove why your most recent idea, such as Web4, is crazy and you shouldn’t do it surrounded by people doing the same with their own crazy ideas.

Eventually you get tired of texting people on LinkedIn who are “domain experts” and so you get up to grab another cup of coffee, third one today, and this two minute break turns into a twenty minute conversation about how to train an AI that can take in drawing from engineers and turns them into CAD models.

A few hours later as you are looking around trying to decide whether you have messaged enough startups building GPT wrappers for the day you overhear a convo about changing how we build houses and how this entirely process could be further optimised. You explored this topic two weeks ago so you get up and walk over to join the conversation and share what you learnt. Half tempted to see what was this obvious thing you missed in your research that might make it possible, half wanting to save them time from researching the same things you explored already.

Then as you notice it’s almost eleven, and you are just thinking you should probably go home, you hear someone cheering from one of the meeting rooms “We did it! It finally works!”.

There is a lot that someone could be critical of with EF, and there are many for whom this may sound like an insane place to come and spend a couple months trying to build your next startup, but there is also something kind of magical about it that compelled me to write this cause I wanted to share how much I’ve been enjoying it.