Short notes

Quick thoughts, observations, and snippets that could someday become a full article, but are worth sharing in the meantime.

  • March 16, 2026

    This resonates with me now when I’m building in public:

    “Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.” —Naval Ravikant

  • March 11, 2026

    Consuming versus creating is a really tough fight. Former is easier while the latter is more rewarding. Infinite scrolling or reading against infinite building or writing. How to find the balance?

  • March 11, 2026

    Here's what I'm thinking: I'd make the applications I need rather than paying for them.

  • March 11, 2026

    I believe I just made my first cross-post to bsky from my own website!

  • February 7, 2026

    Continuing on owning my data, I started to look into POSSE.

    The idea is to publish everything here, so articles, notes and images, and then syndicate on social media applications.

    No, I won't let AI to do that for me. And no, I don't want to pay for it. So I guess I'll have to build a social media content publisher. Another idea to think about.

  • February 4, 2026

    I decided to take ownership of my data.

    To start, I took all of my journals, notes, articles and project files from various "management" applications and moved them to plain text files and folders on my iCloud. Not ideal, I know, but it's just a first step.

    Now I have to figure out what to do about email, invoices, time tracking, tasks management, calendar appointments, reminders and everything else that sits in someone else's data silo.