What I'm doing now
A snapshot of current focus, in the sense of nownownow.com. Reading, watching, and writing below are read from my actual logs rather than retyped, so they are right even when the rest of this page is overdue. Reviewed July 2026.
Location
Currently based in Southern California, Working remotely as a freelance AI consultant and developer.
Building
A diary for artworks, built on the bet that logging individual works instead of gallery visits is what makes the habit stick.
Two browser extensions aimed at the same problem from different angles: giving people back control of what a page does to their attention.
Encrypted, local-only evidence keeping for data-broker removal, because the hard part of disappearing is proving you asked.
Roughly seventy repositories run by scheduled agents that open pull requests rather than pushing. I review a queue instead of seventy inboxes.
Reading
All books →- Designing Data-Intensive ApplicationsMartin Kleppmann
- Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- The StrangerAlbert Camus
- The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky
- The Bothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoyevaky
- VinelandThomas Pynchon
Last watched
All films →- The Princess Bride 1987★★★½
- Sicario 2015★★★★
- Taste of Cherry 1997★★★★★
- La Notte 1961★★★★½
- Breathless 1960★★★★
Writing
All posts →- The Audit Only Checks What It Can Reach
My own site published a number that was false while the correct number sat four lines below it, and the reason generalizes further than software.
- The Rational Actor Is Dead
Homo economicus never existed but we still build policy like it does, and people keep getting hurt.
- Silicon Valley's Death Problem
Transhumanism is terror management theory funded by venture capital, and it is telling on itself.
- Boredom Is a Skill
We engineered boredom out of existence and lost something we cannot get back from a screen.
Thinking about
- →Whether self-hosting is a technical preference or a political one, and what changes if it is the second.
- →How much of what gets called productivity is really just legibility to someone else.
- →Tools that degrade gracefully when the company behind them disappears.
- →Why the interesting part of a recommendation system is what it refuses to show you.
This page follows Derek Sivers' /now page movement. It is a short answer to what I am focused on, not a complete list of everything I could be doing.