My now page as of Mar 15th '26
It's inspired by Derek Sivers'nownownow project, and is meant to capture a point-in-time snapshot of what I was upto at the time. I've written about how I built and maintain ithere.
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Weeknotes
- Been reading Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. Love it when a book’s so good that you speed through it initially, but then slow it down towards the end just to make it last longer. It’s one thing to write a tome on the banality of evil, but to make it simultaneously gut-wrenching and hilarious is truly virtuosic writing. Easily my favourite read of the year, and quite possibly in my all-time top 5. My favourite excerpt from it:
‘When Hoess was hanged,’ he told me, ‘the strap around his ankles – I put that on and made it tight.’ ‘Did that give you a lot of satisfaction?’ I said. ‘No,’ he said. ‘I was like almost everybody who came through that war.’ ‘What do you mean?’ I said. ‘I got so I couldn’t feel anything,’ said Mengel. ‘Every job was a job to do, and no job was any better or any worse than any other. ‘After we finished hanging Hoess,’ Mengel said to me, ‘I packed up my clothes to go home. The catch on my suitcase was broken, so I buckled it shut with a big leather strap. Twice within an hour I did the very same job – once to Hoess and once to my suitcase. Both jobs felt about the same.’
- Finding myself mid-descent into a rabbit-hole of postmodernism. It all started with a listening of The Beatles’ White Album and for the first time noticing the mixtape feel of it. It’s definitely an outlier amongst their other, more thematically coherent albums after the mop-top era. You could play the whole album on shuffle and your experience of it is likely to be no different. Add to that the fact that the album was recorded in near-total fragmentation given the fractures in their interpersonal relationships, and it’s easy to see why the album feels like a work of postmodern pluralism. Another interesting thing about it is that it’s their only album with no album art, almost as if they didn’t have any visual metaphor available to tie it all together.
- Indian Wells was just a banger of a tournament! Can’t remember the last time I enjoyed a Masters 1000 this much. Perfect antidote to a relatively bland Aus Open. As much as I love Sinner and am glad he won, I’m starting to accept that Alcaraz might be more important to the sport of tennis at the moment. So much of the excitement around the draw was based on Alcaraz dropping sets and finally showing cracks in his armor. Also, insane performances by Medi. Didn’t buy that he was back to his best until I properly watched him this past week. Right down to the shithousery of that challenge against Draper, the dude is playing to win. I’m hyped for Miami!