18 posts
The first newsletter shipped a day early. Walking held as the body foundation. The time-of-day rule mostly worked. Sleep stayed broken, and it turns out that's a process problem, not a motivation problem.
This was the body-basics week. LoseIt 2/7. Bedtime 1/7. C25K 0/3. The operating system meanwhile kept evolving. The pattern has a name now.
The CNI wrap-up shipped four days late. The post-mortem went one layer deeper than productive procrastination — to the energy loop that was making it inevitable.
A wrap-up from CNI Spring 2026 in Salt Lake City. Libraries as the bridge in AI decisions on campus, and four concrete patterns of what that bridging actually looks like in practice.
I went to the conference that was supposed to force the ship. It didn't. Tonight I named the pattern and shrunk the first ship.
I generated 33 ideas this week and shipped zero creative works. Tomorrow I fly to a conference. Maybe that's the forcing function I need.
I shipped more in a two-and-a-half-hour Sunday evening sprint than I did in most full workdays this week. I'm not sure what to do with that information.
Step 1: Don’t obsess. Step 2: Constantly ponder Step 1.
I removed this post after realizing it left incorrect impressions. I'd rather discuss it privately—feel free to reach out directly.
A brief post expressing disappointment and frustration as the new year begins, with minimal details shared about what went wrong.
