What's happening now

Updated 1st September 2026, from my home in Britain.

Work, business, and projects

I’m at a crossroads. My contracting gig ended a month ago and I need to figure out what I’m doing with myself. Do I find a problem to solve and go all-in for six months and see if I can finally succeed at building a business? Or do I find a job?

liftingstones.org has taken a back seat so far this year.

Personal

2026 is flying by - I can’t believe it’s September already. The drought and the heat from the summer seems to have passed, leaves have started falling, and we’ve had rain.

I’ve decided to lose more fat until the end of the month (down 10kg compared to this time last year), take a short diet break, and then re-evaluate my next steps.

Reading

Currently

  • The Explorer’s Gene - Alex Huchinson

2026

(Most recent first)

  • 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