Now

Hello, thanks for your interest in what I am doing now.

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    • Life
      • Two days in SF with Toulouse, a cat who looks like a lynx, and then we flew to Kentucky to stay with friends and take care of Mapple, a very sweet dog. A park in Lexington smelled like roasted peanuts, and we only found out why on the way out (a JIF building).
      • The writersā€™ meetup in Louisville was the best part of the month. I wasnā€™t confident about sharing anything, then I shared Peep Watch, and the feedback was so good that I rewrote it the next day.
      • Brazilā€™s election took over everything here. On election Sunday we went on short road trips to stop thinking about it (it didnā€™t work), and that night Lula won, which blew my mind. The next day I dropped my plans and wrote Right, then left.
      • Weā€™re kind of tired of traveling around. Last month I was talking about Chicago, and now weā€™re also looking at FlorianĆ³polis, where the idea is to rent a place for a month and see how it feels. Next up is a road trip to Atlanta, because a $400 Delta flight somehow turned into $1,000 (Daaangg, Delta).
    • Work
      • We hit the a major revenue mark on my birthday (in Apr it was really bad). What changed things was letting go of my favorite ideas and testing what people actually want.
      • A Bird Rise video went viral (200k views) before I even promoted it. Five other videos from the same day, mostly the same edit, got about 1.5k each, so good luck learning anything from that.
      • Removing the worst countries from our ad campaigns made them much worse, so theyā€™re back to worldwide.
      • The photo app is now called Eagle Eye and went to Apple this month, and Memo Rise is turning into Iā€™mma (as in ā€œIā€™m going toā€¦ā€), an alarm thatā€™s also a voice memo and a habit tracker.
    • Relaxing
      • In the last week of the month I marked 10 books as read, and 5 of them were Derek Sivers, which is only fair since heā€™s the reason this page exists. How to Live left me wondering if itā€™s a genius book or just super dumb (maybe both), and in Fart Proudly the fart story is honestly the best. Now Iā€™m on Plurality, plus seven picture books I added the same day we spent a morning at the Lexington library.
    • Exercise
      • Two rides with a friendā€™s bike group in Kentucky. A pace line with two rows rotating the lead is not really my kind of ride šŸ˜›
    Diego in a blue rain jacket and round glasses hugging Mapple, a big black and white dog, on a couch with a kitchen behind them
    Mapple
    Two cats on a wicker cat tree by a window, a big fluffy brown tabby in the lowest basket and an orange and white cat in the top one
    Toulouse and Zephyr
    Selfie of Diego in a helmet, sunglasses and an orange jersey on a paved road, with a friend behind him on a yellow road bike holding up a water bottle and a peace sign
    The bike group
    Diego lying flat on his back over a curved wooden bench on a dirt trail, looking at the sky, with a paper bag and a blue water bottle at his feet
    Election Sunday, not thinking about it
    Cemetery monument with a bronze Jesus leaning over a granite block and holding the ropes of a swing, with a bronze little girl sitting on it, under autumn trees
    Cave Hill Cemetery, our kind of road trip
    People walking across a rust colored steel truss bridge at sunset, with a woman on a bench painting at an easel on the right
    Big Four Bridge, Louisville

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A ā€œnow pageā€ is a quick snapshot of what Iā€™m currently focused on, whatā€™s driving my attention and energy right now, itā€™s like the last page of my journal. Inspired by Derek Sivers, itā€™s a way to share my priorities in the moment. I aim to keep it fresh, updating it regularly as my focus shifts and evolves.

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