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