What I’m Focused on Right Now
January 2025
- Starting the “My Year with Peter Drucker” project
- Working on the right recipe for Neaopolitan, Detroit style, and Midwest tavern pizza
- Writing at Substack: https://fahren.substack.com/
- Relearning the guitar
- Recovering from shoulder surgery
- Planning a roadtrip through the great american west
- Reading:
- the Nicomachean Ethics for the first time since college
- Reboot by Jerry Colonna
- The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
- The Barn by Wright Thompson
- about equity valuation via Aswath Damadoran’s “little” book and his Youtube channel
- Learning a lot about the FIRE movement
July 2024
- Reflecting on the Rift gravel race
- Helping my sons move into their first apartments in DC and Seattle
- Reading:
- The Wright Brothers – David McCollough
- For A Little While – Short stories by Rick Bass
- Managing Yourself – Peter Drucker, a classic
- On the Road – Jack Kerouac (re-reading it 30 years later is amazing)
- the New New Thing – Part of a project to read all the Michael Lewis books
- Sherman – B.H. Liddel Hart. A great, opinionated bio of Sherman. First rate analysis of his strategic choices
- Working on a couple new podcast ideas
- Working on what comes next
March 2024
- Doing some future-me planning; imaging what might come next
- Reading a couple books:
- Preparing for The Rift, a 125mile gravel race in Iceland
- Going to Bentonville in April, for some mountain bike riding
- Writing more. or, at least, trying
September 2022
- Planning a trip to Italy
- Rebooting my business
- Reading up on Product Strategy, the methods and practices that lead to winning products
- Restarting my fitness program with a plan for some endurance cycling events in the summer of 2023
- Writing – Getting started with Write of Passage online course
- Reading:
- Buddhism – The Noble Eightfold path
- Mindfulness – Why Buddhism is True
- Brothers, Nature, Fathers – A River Runs Through it
- Fatherhood & legacy – Pappyland
- European History – Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
January 2022
- Figuring out ways to avoid Winter in MN
- Trying to talk myself out of buying an old Jeep
- Getting ready for the summer gravel events. Using Zwift and Trainerroad to get in shape.
- Building Fahren, with a focus on leading remote teams
- Watching the Crypto market evolve, with a focus on DAOs
- Building a podcast for Fahren, called Business Drivers
- Following Duke basketball
- Really enjoying George Saunder’s StoryClub on Substack
- Working on a software tool for curators, to help digital marketers and product leaders get and stay on top of what’s going on out there.
- Going deep on Bhuddism
- Understanding Stoicism
- Reading, for reasons I can’t articulate, Infinite Jest