What I’m doing now
Updated on December 27, 2025 from Almonte, Ontario.
I’m back in Canada for the holidays, visiting family outside of Ottawa. It’s been nice to have some proper winter weather — that is, snow and sunshine and cold. It’s a nice change from the grey, wet weather that we typically get in Germany.
Since October, I’ve been doing freelance work with with Michel Beaudouin-Lafon’s group at Université Paris-Saclay, who are using Ohm in their research. I’ve been helping them build a fully incremental processing pipeline for an interactive editor, which has been an interesting challenge!
On the health and fitness front, I got over my bruised rib, and have managed to stay healthy since then. And I’m pretty happy that I hit my workout goal for the year: 312 workouts, or an average of 6 per week. Basically, I try to work out dailyish — but when I’m sick, traveling, or just plain busy, it’s ok to miss a day here or there. This approach is working for me, so I’ll stick with it in 2026.
Writing
My writing goal for 2025 was to publish a TIL every week and a proper blog post every month. Here are the results:
Weekly TILs
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01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13
- X X X - - X X X X X X X
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
X X X X X - X X - X - X X
27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
- X X X X X - X X X X X X
40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52
X X - - - - - X - X - - X
Monthly blog
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01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12
- X X - - - - - - - X -
▫️I did pretty well on the TILs until early October, hitting about 80% of the weeks. But, I lost the habit in the final three months of the year. Still, not bad!
As for writing proper blog posts, I only managed a single post after March. So I have to give myself a D- on that one. Next year, I’d like to try something different: scheduling my writing time. Let’s see how that works.
Reading
- The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew B. Crawford. I read this on Tom MacWright’s recommendation and enjoyed many parts of it, though I found it a bit unfocused overall.
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi.