Jonah Weinbaum.Courtesy of Jonah WeinbaumJonah Weinbaum joined a hacker house to work on a neurotech project in summer 2023.The hacker house, Myelin, aimed to develop a wetware computer with $8,000 in funding.Living in the hacker house shifted Weinbaum's career focus from academia to entrepreneurship.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jonah Weinbaum, a 19-year-old who moved into a hacker house during the summer of 2023.