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/now/[1] is a monthly updated page that lists some of the projects I'm working on, media I'm engaging, and hobbies or other activities I'm doing.

Updated 2026-04-01

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Some articles I clipped last month:

Brace for the Fuckening by Justin Searls

Ultimately, unless we see AI crash and burn catastrophically, I feel pretty comfortable predicting that if the only sounds your job makes are * clickety-clack * and * yackety-yack *, the bulk of your colleagues—and very possibly you—are going to be caught up in the gravitational vortex of what Andrew Yang is calling The Fuckening.

So, what can you do to mitigate these risks and protect yourself? All you need to do is follow my fool-proof two-step plan:

Acknowledge that the odds we're living in The Fuckening timeline are greater than zero
Plan accordingly
If you're a programmer and your current role doesn't resemble that of a full-breadth developer, do something about that ASAP. If you're anyone else, then follow this bit of advice buried inside that larger post:

"Figure out how your employer makes money and position your ass directly in-between the corporate bank account and your customers' credit card information."

Do the work: trace your individual contributions to the total revenue and cost savings they represent for your employer. Is that number demonstrably higher than your fully-loaded compensation? If so, you should be okay.

Warranty Void If Regenerated by Scott Werner

Tom Hartmann had not planned to become a Software Mechanic. But then, nobody who was a Software Mechanic had planned to become one, because the job hadn’t existed seven years ago, and the people doing it had all been something else first.

This was true of most professions in the post-transition economy, and it had been true of most professions after containerization, and after electrification, and after the printing press, and probably after the invention of bronze. The first blacksmiths had not grown up dreaming of blacksmithery. They had been people who were good at hitting things with other things and who noticed, at some point, that metal responded interestingly to being hit. The first Software Mechanics were people who were good at diagnosing the gap between what technology was supposed to do and what it actually did. A skill that, before the transition, had been called “IT support” and had been compensated accordingly, which is to say: badly.

How to Increase Your Focus by Leo Babauta

I confess to being as prone to the distractions of the Internet as anyone else: I will start reading about something that interests me and disappear down the rabbit hole for hours (even days) at a time.

But my ability to focus on a single task has dramatically improved, and that one habit has changed my life.

While a few years ago I couldn’t sit down to work on something without quickly switching to email or one of my favorite Internet forums or sites, today I can sit down and write. I can clear away distractions, when I set my mind to it, and do one thing. And that changes everything: you lose yourself in that task, become so immersed that you pour everything you have into the work, and it becomes a meditative, transformative experience. Your happiness increases, stress goes down, and work improves.

I know that lots of people have trouble focusing one one task for very long, and so I thought I’d share a few things that have worked for me.

  1. This Now page is inspired by Derek Sivers, who began nownownow.com. ↩︎