A much-belated update post! Life’s been busy, but isn’t it always? So that’s not much of an excuse. Maybe I’ll take the last-month version of myself up on my offer to blame the change of seasons.
On that note, it’s now cold enough that gloves are required unless you want your hands to crack and bleed after runs. And on that note, I indeed crushed my 5k pb, as I’d hoped for in last month’s update, and then promptly crushed something in my left knee that’s been preventing me from running at all. Poetic!
Or is it poiesis? I finally got that knowledge base post (opens in new tab) out of my system, although if I’m being honest it feels a dash undercooked. As seasoning, it’s hard to get the systems thinking balance right. I’ve also been writing a lot for work — lengthy, painstakingly researched, network-graph strategy stuff — and that really blunts the appetite for similarly knotty writing in the off-hours. To cleanse the palate, I’ve been working on a pretty different post, something significantly more personal. Not sure where it’ll end up yet, and that’s the fun of a personal blog. There’s no overarching theme here, and that’s precisely by design.
I almost regret to write that I’ve read, watched, and listened to very little of interest in the past month. (For instance, my copy of Dwarkesh’s The Scaling Era arrived in the mail and I haven’t cracked the cover!) I say almost because on reflection there’s little sense in apologizing for having left something untouched in a given 31-day period. The unopened book is no less good for it, just as I should read that tomorrow collapses under the comforting weight of the unachievability of tomorrow.
And with that I’m off to sleep, the surest ticket to that impossible tomorrow. See you in just under a month!