What's happening now

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

Work, business, and projects

I’m still at a crossroads. I applied to a few positions at various companies, and I was invited to interview at some. Bigger companies really aren’t a fit, even if the salaries can be attractive. One company I was quite interested in invited me for an initial interview and then immediately had to apologise because they’d filled the position the day before… Even then, I’m really not sure what I actually want to do. I kind of want something where I’m less hands-on with writing software, maybe a management or leadership role?

If I’m being honest, I haven’t really had much of a ‘pull’ from any business ideas, though I wish I did. Having said that, while liftingstones.org has taken a back seat most of the year, I’ve been working on it recently and I want to keep the momentum going, so I may continue with that and see where it leads.

Personal

Autumn is here, and 2026 feels like the shortest year of my life so far.

I’m on a short diet break for couple of weeks, and I’m thinking about where to go from here – lose more fat and become the leanest I’ve ever been, or start ‘building’?

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