Now

As of May 2026, here’s what I’m up to these days:

#1. Healthy lifestyle

Since 2024, to keep burnout away, I’ve been focusing on my health.

I’ve adopted a simple mantra: Doing something for my body, mind, and spirit daily. That habit alone has changed my life.

#2. Daily writing

When I was laid off in early 2024, I treated the time between jobs as a sabbatical.

To fill my days, I challenged myself to post daily. I changed my blogging rules and started to write about anything interesting.

I’m keeping the daily rhythm. Last March, I hit the 500 daily post milestone.

3. Coding trilogy

After many years, I have a love-hate relationship with coding. I don’t want to do it for a living anymore.

But before I retire, I want to leave 10+ years of lessons in a trilogy. That would be my magnum opus. Street-Smart Coding is the second installment, and the first I wrote.

4. Less screen time

Two hours a day on my phone pushed me to change. And one week away from social media made me realize I was addicted.

To reduce my phone and screen time, I’m:

5. A more useful note-taking system

After failing to build a second brain, I started a physical Zettelkasten. The challenge is to file 100 notes (~30 so far) and write my next book from them.