Home, Based

Home, Based

Norms.

• work hard, play hard — we work in the day, play at night and on most weekends 🙂
• unconventional — we do crazy mind-bending research, projects that make cool impact, or found our own companies
• vulnerable & wholesome — we are thoughtful people who actually want to get to know each other deeply, not just do work

What we do.

• Create a family of unconventional, exceptional people ✨
• Work 50 hour weeks, but keep time to fuck around and have fun on evenings + weekends 🏄
• Most of us are working on our own projects!
• Get together for a one month house and establish a repeatable playbook for future houses
• We set intention: a specific project or deliverable that we are working towards for the month

Our Credo.

• mission-driven — we work to meaningfully impact the world, starting with values not money
• connection-driven — we care deeply about creating meaningful connections
• unconventional - we take unconventional paths to create the world we want to live in.
• insatiably curious — we are excited to deeply understand what we and others care about, explore the culture around us, and pursue the novel even if it might fail
• ALL IN — when things get rough, we stick it through

The Basics

Our house is open to anyone regardless of circumstance, so all we aim to subsidize a portion of the house expenses! That said, we hope each member can contribute to the house logistics in some way: either by asking fundraisers for money, taking point on a house chore, or owning a logistical task. We’ll provide you with the materials, resources, and know-how to do so, and are happy to offer flexibility! Guests up to one week are also welcome to visit (just double check with any resident!), for longer than that make sure to ask us in advance.

Say Hi 👋

home.base@mit.edu

The Results

Thanks everyone for staying in the house! We had a great time, and published a number of artifacts. We have a Best Practices document that details how to replicate this experience yourself.

These are the projects that folks shipped during the retreat, and polished afterwards:

1. Aayush - Finished learning the halo2 zero knowledge proof system class and streamed it.
2. Robert - Shipped yeet.today, which allows you to call `yeet 3000` and remove any process running on that port.
3. Eric - Shipped a private beta and user interface for sshx, which supports real-time collaboration for your remote terminals!
4. Ray - Shipped a plan for the Ramanujan Lodge, a 7-day hack lodgeinspired retreat focused on education. It will take place in the Bay Area in March 2023!
5. Linya - Shipped several vlogs centering around Thailand and the house. Links soon!
6. Ray & Linya - Built a prototype for an app to help Chinese students study better. User interviews now taking place with some of Linya’s 1.3m followers.
7. Selena - Solidified Momentum’s short- and long-term trajectory with concrete metrics + created the legal/logistical pipeline to meet our near-term hiring needs. Bringing on new team members now!
8. Neha - Developed accounting/tax/legal pipeline for Transform Tutoring LLC’s revenue for 2023 and beyond, shipped 6 Youtube videos documenting co-working experience
9. Maddie - Made first hire for Founders Cafe
10. Richard - Shipped a new pricing model for Modal, began building the prototype for Katchup, a new way to organize your social life.