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.

Work

• ⏳Client Work:
  • Website AI/LLM/SEO work in Typescript using Astro
  • Misc. Serverless functions to improve interactivity
  • B2B Funnel Instrumentation

👩‍💻 Coding

• 🦀 Attending RustConf 2025
• ⏳ MegaMan 2: Puzzle Attack - 🦀 Carcinized, a Tetris / MegaMan 2 mashup fan game ported to Rust from the Python version by Mark Pulver
• Fixing meta data on my website

🛩 Aviation

• 🔁 Recurring Monthly Currency flights and SIM training

FIRE

• ⏳ 2025 Tax Year Planning

Misc. Projects

• ⏳ Condition training for mountaineering excursion

Media

Podcasts

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

Recently Clipped to my Obsidian Vault

• Plastics Report
• Notes on Managing ADHD
  • I don't have an ADHD diagnoses but I found some of the author's experiences relevant and some of the results of their own interventions commensurate with my own.
• Rank Doesn't Matter; Consistency Does
• Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
• A Study of Lights show Dictators lie about economic growth
• Emotive conjugation works by embedding value judgments into otherwise factual statements. eg: One person is “passionate;” another is “unhinged.”
• "Our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society." — Alan Watts
• A one-way lens is a lens that permanently and irrevocably changes your perspective.
• From The Flux Review Ep. 204:

"Values are alignment constraints. They are structural boundaries that shape what a team or culture is willing to do—and not do." - Via Flux Review 204

Games of Uncertainty (Vaughn Tan) — Reminds us about the distinction between risk, which can be measured and understood well, and uncertainty, which cannot. While many games focus on managing risk, very few prepare us for genuine uncertainty, which is often the largest challenge to overcome in real life scenarios. Perhaps the act of learning a new game is the closest games tend to bring us to building this intuition?

Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges (R. Chetty, D. J. Deming, & J. N. Friedman) — A new paper in NBER observes that the push toward “holistic admissions” at elite universities, where standardized have become optional or even wholly ignored, might actually benefit wealthy candidates. As Paul Graf noted on Bluesky, “if you only used SAT to admit to elite colleges, [the] share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8%→9.9% & representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no drop in post-college results.”

• American kids are less likely to reach adulthood than foreign peers
• If you can’t focus You might be cognitively overloaded. Via Vox
• There’s Something Very Dark Happening to Millennials and Gen Z Adults
• How to Execute The Discipline of Following Through
• Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life
• Study links sensitive personalities to mental health risk

🎮 Video Games

• ⏳Elden Ring - new playthrough before going into Shadow of the Erd Tree expansion
• ☑️ Baldur's Gate III