This is a now page. It tells you what I’m currently focused on.

Last updated: January 2026

🧠 Working On

At work: Building ML systems that actually work in production. The gap between “works in notebook” and “works at scale” is where I live.

Mindent AI: Building a portfolio of software businesses under mindnet.ai. Each product has its own brand — Mindent AI is just the holding company. See the full picture on the Ventures page.

Sparrow Intelligence: Still taking select clients for AI/ML and backend work via sparrow.so.

Content: Making YouTube videos on AI/ML, history, geopolitics, psychology, philosophy. Writing on X and LinkedIn. See where to find me.

📚 Reading

Currently:

  • The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist — On the divided brain and Western culture
  • Chip War by Chris Miller — Geopolitics of semiconductors (riveting, actually)
  • Various papers on mechanistic interpretability

Recently finished:

  • Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright
  • The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian

On the nightstand:

  • The Brothers Karamazov — Dostoevsky (perpetually “currently reading”)
  • Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott

🎧 Listening To

Podcasts I’m enjoying:

  • Lex Fridman Podcast — Long-form conversations with interesting minds
  • Dwarkesh Patel — Deep dives on AI, history, and progress
  • The Ezra Klein Show — Policy and ideas
  • Philosophize This! — Philosophy made accessible

Music for coding:

  • Lo-fi hip hop (obviously)
  • Film scores (Hans Zimmer, Jóhann Jóhannsson)
  • Ambient electronic (Tycho, Boards of Canada)
  • Occasionally: aggressive metal when debugging legacy code

💭 Thinking About

  • Mechanistic interpretability — Can we actually understand what’s happening inside neural networks?
  • AI governance — Who decides what AI can and can’t do? (Spoiler: it’s complicated)
  • The attention economy — How technology shapes minds at scale
  • Craft vs. scale — What’s lost when we optimize for growth?
  • Why Euro and Brownie prefer sleeping on my keyboard — A mystery for the ages

🌍 Paying Attention To

Geopolitics:

  • US-China tech competition
  • AI regulation landscape (EU AI Act, US executive orders)
  • The changing nature of warfare

Tech:

  • Open source AI models (Llama, Mistral, etc.)
  • The agent/agentic AI explosion
  • What comes after transformers?

💪 Fitness

  • Training: 6 days/week, natural bodybuilding
  • Current focus: Progressive overload, compound movements
  • Philosophy: Consistency over intensity, no shortcuts
  • Why: The gym is my meditation. Problems solve themselves under the barbell.

🐾 Life Things

  • Location: Somewhere with good coffee, stable internet, and a decent gym
  • Health: Maintaining the meat vehicle that runs my brain — 6x weekly
  • My wife 👑: The queen. The reason any of this exists. Still inspiring me daily.
  • Euro 🐱: The gentleman. Currently judging me from his throne (the cat tree)
  • Brownie 🐱: The chaos agent. Currently obsessed with knocking things off my desk

❌ Not Doing

A “stop doing” list is as important as a to-do list:

  • Not taking on clients outside my expertise (AI/ML, backend, scaling)
  • Not optimizing for productivity metrics
  • Not checking email more than twice a day (aspirational)
  • Not saying yes to things that don’t compound

Inspired by Derek Sivers’ /now page. If you have your own, I’d love to see it.

See also: About Me | What I Believe | Tools I Use | What I’m Reading | Questions I’m Exploring

Current Projects: Sparrow Intelligence | Mindent | RepoEngine