I love what I do. I love my job. I'm not a genius, and I'm not a world-class, renowned authority on anything I do. I'm just a guy, but I like to think I'm good at what I do, because I love it, and that makes me spend time learning and refining my skills. I also know I'm lazy when it comes to oth...

I was raised in a somewhat religious household. We used to go to church every Sunday and I used to believe in God. At some point, probably about 20 years ago, I started labeling myself as agnostic. I know there are aspects of the human experience that can't be entirely studied by science, and that...

I just turned 42 today, and ChatGPT called me obese. In all fairness, it's right. It even said it's not like it's calling me that, it's the objective truth based on my height and my weight. So what to do about it? Ever since I turned 40, I keep feeling like my body is starting to go downhill, an...

A few years ago I finally made the jump from Windows to Linux permanently. At first it was because I got stung by a comment I read online, and it applied to me, that said something like "Everyone says they use Linux, but no one actually uses Linux". Yes, I used it for work, and I used to tinker wi...

So, I set up a laptop for my wife with Linux — Aurora Linux, by the way. I wrote about why I landed on it in another post. I set her up with Aurora on her laptop because I had already installed a Hermes agent on her Windows computer and I didn't really like how it worked there. I think it's bett...

Well, here we go again, trying to put my ideas out there — not on paper, but in writing, at least. I've been reading books about randomness and decision-making. I started with Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke, then Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb, then The Black Swan, also by Taleb, and I...

I spent the day yesterday playing with Hermes. At some point I was using OpenClaw, but I decided to go with Hermes instead because it felt more polished, more professional. I still don't have a very professional or useful thing to do with it yet, but I think it can be incredibly useful once I figu...

By now we've all heard that AI is going to take away a ton of jobs — that maybe software engineers will disappear, or at the very least the market won't be what it used to be. There are lots of layoffs, and honestly, I don't know exactly what to do with my life at this point. I still have a job, a...

There's something I really should have thought about when I bought an outdoor security camera. I got a Reolink one — works fine most of the time, just like the indoor cameras — but during the winter it just stopped working. I think it was the temperature. I'm in Utah, so when it gets cold, the lit...

I came to that realization yesterday as I was contemplating my usage of Windsurf and Claude Code, both for work and for my personal projects. I realized it's been a while since I actually wrote some code myself. I've been working on pipelines, security, infrastructure, and a little bit of coding —...

So I've been thinking a lot about AI lately, 'cuz it's the hype these days, and I keep thinking some sci-fi scenarios from movies are kind of plausible now. I was watching YouTube, and there were a few things I came across that I think could create the opportunity for scary AI scenarios — and we...

All right, let's get started. I've been putting off this blog for a couple of months because I never feel like I have the perfect thing to write about.

It's been about a month since I started intermittent fasting, and I wanted to share my experience so far. I decided to try intermittent fasting as a simple way to kickstart weight loss and, more importantly, to boost my energy levels, as I mentioned in my previous post. Overall, I think it’s going...

This morning, I was looking for an excuse to procrastinate on my day job, and lucky for me, YouTube’s algorithm came to the rescue. It recommended a podcast interview with a scientist talking about cancer research. So, naturally, I clicked on it. They discussed a lot about metabolic therapy for...

Last week, I did all the research I needed to redo the waitlist for the app I'm planning to build with my college friend. I even made the template I posted about. I had everything mapped out—each section, the domain, the hosting, and a template for the actual site. And yet… I didn’t do it. Yeah,...

Okay, I think I meant the Dunning-Kruger effect. Maybe I’m just hungry and losing track of what I’m doing. Anyway, I recently posted about trying to come up with a better waitlist page for the app I’m working on with my college friend. I started using ChatGPT for that, and wow, I was blown away....

I recently posted here about what I’ve been learning regarding waitlists and idea validation. Turns out, I didn’t really have a good waitlist setup for the app I’m building with my college friend. The current version was just a plain paragraph, an email input, and a button—not very descriptive o...

A few weeks ago, I watched a podcast featuring Marc Randolph, one of the co-founders of Netflix. He talked about the early days of Netflix and how the idea came to be. I highly recommend checking out the whole interview, but the part that really stuck with me was when he mentioned that when you ha...

Alright, so now that I have a clear goal in mind—how much I want to make and my target timeline—the next question is: how do I get there? Lately, ChatGPT has been one of my go-to resources, so I figured I’d ask it directly, along with using Perplexity to double-check my sources. (Side note: I r...

A few months ago, I read a book called Ultralearning, and it was seriously eye-opening. It’s all about how to accelerate the process of acquiring new skills—not by taking shortcuts but by being super efficient and making every effort count. One of the stories in the book that really stood out to...

My life has been relatively easy—not a literal "walk in the park," but not a struggle in the traditional sense either. Overall, I've lived a simple, unremarkable life, with both the good and bad things staying within a manageable range. In a previous post, I mentioned a video that touches on ego...

Do I really have time for this? I don't know. I keep overbooking myself, and I guess I'm starting to realize that maybe I'm part of the problem, especially with how I handle things with my first business partner. A few months before I came up with the "Five in Five" idea, I reconnected with an old...

Life’s been pretty good lately—not super exciting, but not bad either. I’m not rich yet, and I don’t travel much or have grand adventures. It’s mostly just work. I don’t go out much, and neither does my family. We’re not really outdoorsy people, but overall, life’s been good, especially in the las...

Some Background At the time I’m starting this project, I’m about 40 years old, and I’m a software engineer. I’ve always liked computers, and that’s pretty much the only thing I know how to do. Right now, I have a job that lets me live comfortably enough. I’ve got about $70,000 in debt, and I’m p...