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It’s easy to be bold in the moment, because all you have is what you can process: see, smell, feel, taste. And that’s a very small amount of what is.

Morning Star — Pierce Brown

Recovering from a big surgery at the end of a hard year, and building my way through it.

Building
Route Ronin, a dictation tool that turns what a rep says into CRM entries so nobody has to fight a pile of forms. Cool Mom, an anti-influencer app for finding new places actually worth checking out. A hemp law tracker that keeps sellers up to date, state by state. A command center for all my messages, which isn't going well, but fuck it, it's been fun. Plus a dashboard that keeps all my processes in one place.
Reading
Coexistence, Ethan Mollick's new one. Dungeon Crawler Carl, deep into This Inevitable Ruin, and it's been fun watching everyone else find the series. Then every day, there's Every. It's the newsletter that's shaped how I think more than any other, and right behind it are Ben's Bites, Superhuman and X. The brightest minds are posting so much good stuff that it's hard to keep up, but keeping up has given me purpose and keeps me ahead of the game.
Listening
Way more new music than usual, a lot of it found through Horizons, the app I built to get myself out of my own algorithm.
Practicing
Getting back into yoga and meditation. It's been hard, but I'm trying to bring some presence into all the productivity chaos and take a beat every now and then.
Playing
Ghost of Yotei on PS5, with Hades II and Spider-Man up next on my brother's recommendation. Plus my fantasy football and basketball leagues, which I'll totally admit I've automated. It's working, and it's given me the space to actually enjoy fantasy again.
Learning
Running a small crew of AI agents named after Mr. Robot characters, which is pretty fucking cool.

It's been a hard year, and a big surgery capped it off. Somehow it opened me up. I feel more refreshed than I have in a long time, and I'm putting that energy into building, reconnecting with friends and family, taking care of my body, and learning as much as I can. There's a lot of beauty in the chaos.

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