Intro to /now/

/now/^[1] is a monthly updated page listing some, but not all, of the projects I've been working on, whether closed-ended or ever-green.

Writing

• December 31, 2025 - The birthday prank that resulted from sniping my friend's personal website domain and porting his game from 🐍 Python to 🦀 Rust

👩‍💻 Coding

• Mega Man 2: Puzzle Attack - 🦀 Carcinized, a Tetris / Mega Man 2 mashup fan game ported to Rust from the Python version by Mark Pulver

🏔️ Hiking & Mountaineering

• ✅ Monthly family hike on local trail
• Planning Mt. Adams trip

🛩 Aviation

• 🔁 Recurring Monthly Currency flights and SIM training
• ✅ Flew in the sim
• Planning Intl trip

FIRE

• 2025 Tax Year Planning & Payments

Misc. Projects

• Looking at local schools for my kiddo
• Trying out intermittent fasting
• Planning 2026 Projects, Calendar, etc.
• Dealing with a small mold issue in the house
• Planning a trip to Lego Land

Media

Music

• My Beastie Boys albums
  • Check Your Head
  • Hello Nasty
  • The Sounds of Science

Shows

• Fallout Season 2

Movies

• Critters (1986)
• Elf (2003)
• Gremlins (1984)

Podcasts

• 🔁 Opposing Bases
• 🔁 Aviation News Talk w/ Max Trescott

🎮 Video Games

• ⏳Elden Ring - new play-through before going into Shadow of the Erd Tree expansion. Whips + Magic build.

Clipped Articles

Six Ways to Start Early and Lift Your Mood
Summary:
rise early
exercise
meditate
caffeinate
eat
work

Intense Asymmetry and Self-Flagellation
"I would say “stop comparing yourself to others and just be as good as you can,” but high-achievers like you and me could never accept that advice, even if it is wise, because we’re physiologically incapable of not measuring ourselves by impossible yardsticks we invented and, because of Impostor Syndrome, by definition we always come up short.

Instead, how about this:

Stop comparing yourself to something that is objectively incomparable.

Why Few Organizations Adopt Systems Thinking
We cannot learn from doing anything right. We already know how to do it. Of course, we may get confirmation of what we already know, and this has some value, but it is not learning. We can learn from mistakes if we identify and correct them. Therefore, organizations and individuals that never admit to a mistake never learn anything. Organizations and individuals that always transfer responsibility for their mistakes to others also avoid learning. One need look no further for an example than to the executive office of my government.

An Evening Ritual to Realize a Happier Life - The Atlantic
[...this evening ritual...] is the ideal, rather than my norm. Even so, this research-based plan has helped me a great deal—and it might provide a starting point for you to create your own.

Greed, Centralization, Monopoly, Ruin
Greed is not the same as profit. Greed maximizes gains by exploitation, not increasing value. Greed is the operative driver of the current era. The socio-political-economic system is dominated by greed-driven concentrations of power: monopolies, cartels and states.