Now
(updated: Monday 4 May 2026 | Torquay, Australia)
Listening to
A lot of Sampha, Loyle Carner, Kiasmos, Arlo Parks, and Thom Yorke at the moment. I switched to Qobuz late last year and it’s really changed how I listen to music in that I choose my music a lot more.
Learning
Travel
Learning to surf still. Making progress and really enjoying it after I was reminded a few months ago that this should be fun(!). Also trying to get into a couple of vibecoding projects. I’m very sceptical about AI (or more accurately; sceptical about how it’s currently being used, discussed, and governed), but I think there’s some really fun and interesting use cases around personal software development.
Fitness
Recently did a weekend in the Grampians, adding on a few fun days in the Northern Rivers of NSW to an upcoming work trip, and preparing for my first UK visit in two years to see family and friends.
This year is all about strength training. I used Claude to come up with an initial program based on my goals (putting on 5kg of muscle) which I uploaded into the Push app. Push then creates progressive overload plans each week without me having to remember / keep a note of what I’ve been lifting etc, I also like that it will mix up the different exercises sometimes too.
So far so good, I’ve been getting body scans at another local gym to track my progress and enjoying noticing the progress in how much I’m lifting.
I started to get back into running late last year, but my body keeps rejecting running. So trying to get a couple of longer walks in each week along with a pilates or yoga session to supplement the strength training.
Reading
Other stuff
Babel by R F Kuang (loving this so far, even despite its elements of fantasy)
How Not to Use AI by Abi Awomosu (I want to love this, but I’m just not into the writing style or most of the ideas (yet?)… but I’ll keep going)
Have felt very much out of the writing rhythm recently, so trying to get back into that.