Finally got to meet @levelsio 20m since landing in Portugal and he was already inviting us for eggs and bread. Literally "omgggg please come to our hosue to chill. Your wife needs to be safe cuz pregnant. We will take care of u!! Come with ur stuff. We'll make u eggs and bread" Well, my wife and I weren't exactly in the street but in a super nice restaurant with views, but we totally said: "yessss, see you after lunch!" So @anacoding and I went there a bit later and he opened the door like this infinitely more friendly, relaxed, and chatty guy than I imagined Pieter would be. We also met his gorgeous girlfriend and AI muse, but since I think he's never said her name in public I'll keep it to myself :) His house was amazing, but more than the jacuzzi/sauna, what got me excited was seeing how well he's set it up: Pieter has this magnet vibe where he's pulled in a bunch of his old nomad friends from years of running around the world, so instead of being isolated he's built an incredible people hub Every week (even when Pieter travels, because he leaves them the keys) they meet in his cave to cowork and lift weights. Following day went to one of this coworks. Honestly I think I've never worked so little in my life as that day, but I had a blast His place felt like a Friends set (I swear Pieter would make even more money than he already does if he did a reality show) and a bunch of his friends kept passing through. He introduced me to @rameerez and his girlfriend, and we clicked so well they ended up coming on vacation with us later on another trip. In fact, all of his friends were super cool: good vibes, info exchange and learning, the banter roasting each other... it was a brutal "ab chamber" My main achievement of the day? Convincing Pieter to fly Flight Simulator over Murcia (my city in Spain, the best city in the world, worldwide) Pieter: "but wtf with this city dude? you always talking about it!" We also remembered some past flames we had at X (aka "turnip" lol, when I took forever to ship the Magnific API and all that, grrr he totally pushed a competitor buuuuut, help us a lot too. Come one! I even copied the texts / prices of his pricing landing lol and he took it well!) The funniest part was the whole sitcom kitchen vibe: everyone would go up to the kitchen while he treated us to these massive beef steaks made in an air fryer ("he made me bring that shit in my luggage on a trip because they wouldn't ship it to Portugal", one of his friends confessed). And around the table they'd start arguing in a totally straight line until you hit the marrow about things like the custom home automation system he built, or the latest open source model he's thinking of using on his site Then everyone into the jacuzzi, into the sauna, and back again Pieter is probably the most intense (he talks like he's on 2x speed), chillest, and most fun famous person I've met. Which proves that surrounding yourself with people who care about you + lifting weights can stop you from becoming a social network neurotic and instead give you a healthy mind that just makes you a warm and nice person