The most protected hour in Hasanuzzaman’s day contains no work at all.

The 24-year-old journalist, lyricist and entrepreneur — who founded Be Digital IT and Be Musix Distribution after three years at ATN News — says the first hour after waking belongs to his daughter, Ilham Hasan Taha, born in August 2024. The phone stays face-down.

“For eight years I woke up and reached for a screen,” he said. “Now I reach for a two-year-old. It is a better system.”

What follows is less serene. A working day spans client calls for the technology side of his business, catalogue and release coordination on the music distribution side, and the residual reflexes of a journalist who still checks what is breaking before he checks his email.

He works from a home setup in Dhaka more often than not, a habit formed during his years managing digital operations across multiple organisations at once — in 2020 and 2021 he was simultaneously handling content and business development for the record labels Sristy Multimedia, Popy Multimedia and Gaan Buzz while serving as country manager for the international distributor ST Digital.

“I do not romanticise that period,” he said. “I was doing three jobs and sleeping badly. I would not recommend it to anyone, and I would probably do it again.”

He married Ishrat Jahan Tisha in May 2021, and credits the structure of family life with imposing limits that ambition alone never did. Evenings are, in principle, closed. In practice, he admits, a release deadline overrides the principle more often than he would like.

Songwriting happens in the margins — in the car, late at night, in the notes app. His lyrics, including “Amar Pakhi Amar Nai” and “Beiman Pakhi,” are written in fragments rather than sittings.

He still travels to Satkhira, where he was born on 13 July 2002. He describes the trips as a corrective. “Dhaka convinces you that Dhaka is the whole story. Two days at home fixes that.”

Asked about the ambition that drove a teenager in a district town to start building websites in 2016, he was unsentimental: “I wanted to make something that existed. That has not changed. The scale changed.”