Now

What I’m doing now

(This is a now page inspired by Derek Sivers and Jeff Triplett).

Updated May 29th, 2025 from my home in Charlotte, NC.

Work and/or Computer

• Working on a large refactor of our registration system at NANOG along with a few other projects
• Working on de-googling

Emacs

• Cleaning up my now-too-big emacs config
• Working on some ideas to tie quick capture from emacs to OmniFocus. I use orgmode for notes but tasks live in OmniFocus.

Studio

• Planning out a “50 Faces” projects of portraits

Training Status

• Running approximately 25 miles a week. No races on the calendar currently but plan to be race ready and able to jump in a half marathon as soon as one comes up away from Charlotte.
• Rucking once or twice a week (running is my focus right now)
• Lifting heavy three days a week.

Reading

• Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown
• The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart by Madeline Bruser
• ✅ Dopamine Nation by Anne Lembke
• ✅ Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff​
• ✅ 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom
• ✅ Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Leonard

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Updated January 28th, 2025 from my home in Charlotte, NC.

Working on this blog. I moved it to Astro hosted on Cloudflare Pages from my old unused Hugo blog.

🏃 Training Status

• I’m not currently training for any races but I am running three to four days a week.
• Rucking two days a week with a 30lb ruck.
• Lifting three days a week.

📚 Reading

• ✅ Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
• ✅ Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• ✅ Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter
• ✅ Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
• ✅ Outlive by Peter Attia, MD