What's happening now
Updated 1st June 2026, from my home in Britain.
Work, business, and projects
Currently contracting at TinyPilot.
I’ve been looking for interesting problems to solve with a B2B product. I was developing an MVP for a problem I thought was promising, but only one person claimed they were interested, and even they didn’t seem overly excited - it was difficult trying to get them to pay. Even just trying to get in contact with other people in that niche was incredibly difficult, which surprised me. I’ve decided to scrap that idea and specific problem for now. Some of the underlying systems can be reused, so I’m going to explore other ideas.
A while ago, my mind was badgering me to revive an older project. I pushed it aside but it kept bubbling up and I needed a break from the B2B thing, so I decided to give it a shot and rebuild it in a month like old times. I’m decently happy with the result: strongmangyms.com.
liftingstones.org is taking a back seat so I can focus on building a business. When I do work on it, it’s in my personal time, so I’m being ruthless about what I do.
Personal
2026 is flying by.
I’m feeling a bit burnt out.
Reading
Currently
- From third world to first - Lee Kuan Yew
2026
(Most recent first)
- 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