April Update: Gardens, Grass, and Big Fish
Quick update from me! I’ve not got a big thesis or a grand narrative this time round, just a few things I’ve been up to since March. ...
Blogging
I Failed, But I Feel Good: GenAI, Blogging For Fun and Touching Grass
On the 16th of February, I made a blog post where I laid out my disappointment in barely blogging in 2025, how it was such a blur and 2026 was going to be #NewYearNewMe and I was going to get back to blogging more. However, I wasn’t going to get New Years Resolution syndrome and make an empty promise, so I added some accountability to the post: If I fail to hit the end-of-February deadline, I have to post a clearly GenAI Hustleslop LinkedIn Status about my failure to hit the first accountability deadline of 2026 ...
My 2026 Blogging Plans
I’ve got a lot of ideas of what I want to post about in 2026, a mix of plans for the future and catching up on the things I was meant to be posting about in 2025. So here’s a bunch of things I did in 2025 and 2026 I’ve been meaning to go back and talk on, and you can think of this as a sneak preview of all the things I’ll eventually blog about in some capacity this year. ...
Back on the Horse: Refocusing on What Matters in 2026
One thing you should know about me is I love tinkering. I always have a side-project or two on the go, and an office littered with kickstarted gadgets, half-completed projects and the various detritus of a jumbled mind. However, everything reaches a tipping point, and in 2025 I think I was teetering on the edge of a proper burnout moment. I think I managed to just about dance-between-the-raindrops enough not to completely toast myself…but I got close a few times! ...