January 10, 2025

Happy New Year! 🎉

Roadtripped over the holidays. Great time. Photos soon. 🇨🇦

Also, congratulations to NYC for implementing congestion pricing in my absence. Will be keeping an eye on this as one metric. 🚙

Reminds me of a song…

Using zed.dev as my code editor with Github Copilot as the inline autocomplete agent. It leaks emojis everywhere. Not my usual style, but maybe could be fun to use in lieu of a “this line is different than last time” marker. 🆕 🤖

We’ll see how long this lasts. (The emojis, not the editor.) 🤞

Vocational Notes

Actively performing technical advisory and fractional roles. Medium capacity (10 hours/week for ongoing retainers, burst-able to 30+ with notice). Current foci:
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- AI-enabled Workflows
- Anti-social networking
Official Team, Assemble! launch imminent 🟡
- demo and write-up
- Looking for product/technical lead to take myself out of the loop. (Maybe this is you?)
- Active TODO: write up a dispatch on this process. Many learnings.
Revisiting the Contact Management Tool as, on further reflections, there’s a lot to think about here.
- Bought domain names, so you know it’s serious.

Avocational Notes

Lifting 3-4 times per week (with the exception of the last three weeks)
Karting has been a welcome new hobby.
- Had second-fastest lap time at an RPM Speedway last month. 🏎️
Started work on a small project.

Content Consumption (Abbreviated)

Television

Clarkson’s Farm, Season 3 - Good 🐄
Pantheon - Very Good 🏛️
Silo - Also Very Good 🌾

AppleTV+ is killing it, have to say. 🍏

Books

Please send recommendations (not liking Goodreads offerings)

Games

Chess
- Elo ~1100 (Daily). Write me if you want my chess.com username.
CS2 – We are so back.
Vampire Survivors – Roguelike with retro stylings that betray its depth. 🧛‍♂️