Now
What I'm up to. Last updated 29th May 2024.
Building
- A product studio - Turning my product design and engineering practice into something more substantial.
Writing
- A small newsletter - Eclectic writing for a handful of my closest friends.
- Specialism vs generalism - Identifying effective polymathy and resolving the tension between a generalist skillset and a specialist-first market.
Reading
- Cloud Forensics Demystified - You would think after medicine, programming and crypto I would have built up a tolerance for weird and arcane fields.
- The Mom Test - A classic reference manual that I reread whenever I'm about to attempt something interesting.
- A Country Doctor's Notebook - I still have a soft spot for physician writers and their work.
Listening
- Metamuse - Cerebral product design takes focusing on craft over careers or trends. Dismayed to find it on hiatus as it's really excellent.
Playing
- Sunless Sea - A forgettable gameplay loop paired with some of the most compelling writing and worldbuilding I have ever seen.
Learning
- Languages - I live in Portugal, my partner is Spanish and my family is Polish. It's an occasionally bewildering, always enriching experience.
- Godot - Betting on open source, testing myself as a solo creative and pining for "a heroic age of games authorship".