What I’m Doing Right Now

Last updated Friday, November 21, 2025 from my home in Wisconsin..

Recently

On October 12 I completed the 2025 Chicago Marathon with a time of 4 hours and 11 minutes - a 16 minute PR! I followed the Hal Higdon Intermediate 1 training plan and have logged more than 800 running miles so far this year.

I took at sabbatical from my full-time job at Zendesk earlier this Summer. I spent most of my time off away from my computer, engaging in physical hobbies, spending time with my family, and traveling. Some day I would like to do a sabbatical where I spend time doing fun things on a computer (like the Recurse Center) but this was exactly what I needed to take a step back given the state of the tech industry.

Projects

• Building Olima and Olipods.
• oliver - a jekyll theme - a new design for my personal website. I really like Jekyll, but I have very little experience with frontend web development (mainly CSS), so it’s been a good learning project.

Reading

I often find myself reading too many books at once.

Currently

Fiction

• The Gates of the Feral Gods
• The Will of the Many
• Catch-22
• Blood Meridian

Non-Fiction

• The Anxious Generation
• On Tyranny
• Ikigai - The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

On-deck

See more at my Goodreads TBR.

Fiction

• The Count of Monte Cristo

Non-Fiction

• Mark Twain
• Everything is Tuberculosis
• Abundance

Multi-Book Series I Am Currently Reading

• Dungeon Crawler Carl (3/7 done)
• The Stormlight Archive (1/5 done)
• Children of Time (1/3 done)
• Dune (1/6 done)
• The Wheel of Time (0/15 done)
• Mistborn Saga (0/7 done)

Books I Read in 2025

• Circe
• Misery
• A Dance with Dragons
• Wool
• Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
• The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
• Piranesi
• The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
• Good Morning, Midnight
• Onyx Storm
• East of Eden
• The Way of Kings
• Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
• Dungeon Crawler Carl

Games

I got a Switch 2!

Now Playing

Most recent at the top, but all of these are kind of in rotation at the moment…

• Final Fantasy XIV
• Timberborn
• Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Always Playing

• Balatro
• Stardew Valley

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