The dot on the ceiling

Factually, I kept myself busy in September.

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Chronologically, it sounds funny: I experienced heartbreak, but it felt good, then I went on vacation and it was great, also I met a bunch of friends which was also great, but I also got quite sick which sucked, and also an awesome guest visited in Amster…

June was so busy.

Approximately six months ago, I decided to start dedicating serious time and attention to dating.

Thankfully, my travel intensity decreased in May.

For this month’s newsletter, I’m going to try something slightly different.

Happy April 1st.

Gosh, I so needed a vacation.

At the start of January, a “snowpocalypse” happened in the Netherlands.

An out-of-band entry to flush a backlog of topics that don’t fit the monthly updates: Very valid heuristic from this post on Bluesky: If you can substitute “hungry ghost trapped in a jar” for “AI” in a sentence it’s probably a valid use case for LLMs.

The common thread for December was to put to work certain skills and ambitions that had been brewing for the last year. ❦❦❦ The first was the creation of this dashboard: Music radio channels.

The vibe for November was more studious and activity-oriented.

Following a lovely week with friends visiting from Brooklyn, I headed to visit my mom in the countryside.

I’m writing this between a busy day and a delightful dinner.

Much has happened and once again sadly I am constrained by time: in just two hours I need to join my visitors and friends from abroad for dinner. ❦❦❦ Visitors from abroad!

Somehow life caught up and this update nearly missed getting written at all.

The next two weeks will be filled with travel without much time to write, so you are getting this month’s update a bit early.

“Day in the life:” I am squeezing the typing of a first draft of this post in-between breakfast and leaving for my gym class before lunch.

As I am typing this, I am feeling the tug of this wonderful fidget toy on my attention, at the corner of my eye.

This month: flowers and home improvements.

Buckle up: we need to talk about serious stuff. ❦❦❦ Before that, a brief recap of the past few weeks.

You are likely reading this while I rest briefly at home from a fierce jetlag, mere days before my next travel.

What happened this month?

Stuff happens: I do not really set “goals” and so the topic of comparing “goals set” vs.

This month was somewhat more quiet.

Am I lying to myself?

This month, I spent quality time with friends and past coworkers in NYC.

Two weeks from now I will be in New York, first attending a wedding and then visiting a few friends.

When I complained to my life coach, at the end of July, that I was finding it hard to follow the weekly structured schedule I had set up in June, even though I had felt engaged and motivated by it at the beginning, he pointed out that I had been …

Networking is hard.

This month’s update is coming a little bit early because I will be traveling next week, quite possibly without a laptop.