What's happening now

Updated 2nd March 2025, from my home in the UK.

Work and projects

Currently contracting at TinyPilot.

liftingstones.org and I have a complicated relationship at the moment. I don’t have an urge to research and write articles right now. But I have been doing some site development. And I’m putting together an info product that I think people will love.

Delivery Ravens is now in early-bird access. It felt good to launch something new for the first time in years; it’s been way too long. I’ll be properly dogfooding it when I finish my first digital product, but it already does basically what I want. It’s close to version 1, and I’m much less embarassed by it than I was a month ago.

I’ve been writing a weekly development log for my projects recently. Almost like a weekly journal of my progress, thoughts, and what’s next – though they’re not quite as candid as a private journal. They’re nothing special. And they’re mostly for me; I sit down for about an hour on a Sunday and write. Sometimes, there’s just not much to say. But writing is thinking regardless. And they’re keeping me accountable.

As for other projects, I have too many ideas. Two of them persist from last year. And I had another a while back that I can’t get off my mind. But I’m going to have to sacrifice something, somewhere, to make the time if I actually want to do them.

‘Infinite runway’ from contracting/consulting is nice, but it makes building momentum on anything else so hard. The few Stripe notifications I get each month are amazing, but I need to grow them to multiple per day.

Personal

I attempted, and failed, to lift the Dinnie Stones back in July. My next attempt is booked in for July 1st, almost exactly a year on. Training has been going ok, but it could be better – particularly with hook grip; my left thumb is in more pain than it was this time last year. I have other minor injuries too, including knee pain, muscle pulls, and tendonitis. Assuming I don’t get properly injured, I’m confident I’ll get the lift this time. After I do it, I’ll take a few weeks off of serious training to recover.

I’ve been thinking about buying a car for a while. I don’t need one. But it would be nice. One of the major things putting me off is the ongoing costs. When I do the maths, I’d be better off getting an Uber everywhere. You can’t roadtrip in an Uber though…

Wondering where to travel to next. I want to return to Japan, but I’m don’t have a clear image of what I’d want to see or do. Where else could I go?

Reading

Currently

  • On Looking - Alexandra Horowitz
  • The Vagabond’s Way - Rolf Potts

So far this year

(Most recent first)

  • Blue Latitudes - Tony Horwitz
  • Longitude - Dava Sobel
  • Poor Charlie’s Almanack - Charles Munger, Peter D. Kaufman