What's happening now

Updated 1^st November 2026, from my home in Britain.

Work, business, and projects

Despite the initial positive progress with job applications and interviews when I started a month or so ago, I’ve had no reponses from any other applications. It’s quite demoralizing. It’s the most difficult job hunt I’ve ever had and hasn’t been enjoyable. I hear others are having similar experiences. The tech industry is going through a lot right now.

At the start of October I had enough momentum (and time) on liftingstones.org to do some development work I had on my to-do list for a while, and I’m pretty pleased with the results.

If I’m being honest, I haven’t really had much of a ‘pull’ from any business ideas, though I wish I did. I’m considering buying a business, is that escapism?

Personal

Autumn is definitely here. It’s cold and grey and dark. 2026 feels like the shortest year of my life so far.

I’m doing some more fat loss until early December, but at a lower intensity. Then I’ll take a break and think about my gym goals for 2027.

Reading

Currently

• The Unaccountability Machine - Dan Davies

2026

(Most recent first)

• Same as Ever - Morgan Housel
• The Explorer’s Gene - Alex Huchinson
• Invention - James Dyson
• The Living Mountain - Nan Shepherd
• Endure - Alex Huchinson
• From third world to first - Lee Kuan Yew
• The Beauty of Everyday Things - Soetsu Yanagi
• The Wind Beneath the Stone - David Keohan
• Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• The perfect guide to Sumo - Ito Katsuharu
• If anyone builds it, everyone dies - Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares
• The man from the future - Ananyo Bhattacharya
• How to Drive - Ben Collins
• The shortest history of Japan - Lesley Downer