What's happening now

Updated 17^th January 2025, from my home in the UK.

Work and projects

Currently contracting at TinyPilot.

liftingstones.org’s 2024 year-in-review went out a few weeks ago. In short it felt like a down year, especially compared to 2023. Unfortunately, my time is pretty constrained, so I just don’t know how much I’m going to be able to do. My current hope is to at least have a similar year to 2024. And if I get the chance to do more, I want to take advantage of that.

Delivery Ravens is now live and ready to go. It feels 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. There’s still lots of work to do (especially on the marketing front). Let’s see where it can get to this year.

As for other projects, I have too many ideas. Two of them persist from last year. 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. I only started training with the rings again a few weeks before the new year, and my thumbs are taking a battering. It never gets easier either. Assuming I don’t get injured, I’m pretty confident I’ll get the lift this time.

I’ve been thinking about buying a car for a while. I don’t need one. It would be nice though. I almost bought a V12 Toyota Century at auction in September. Kind of glad that deal didn’t happen – it would have been far too impractical as my only car. The roads near me are already fairly narrow, and the idea of navigating a ship-sized car around them isn’t exciting. I think I know what I want now. I just need to find the right one.

Took a long-awaited break over Christmas. I really should take more time off.

Reading

Poor Charlie’s Almanack - Charles Munger, Peter D. Kaufman