Side Retreats: These are structured withdrawal from my daily life that brings me joy, help me learn, and make new friends.
Writing. I write about things i believe in, things i'm figuring out, and the occasional learning i want to remember out loud. Sometimes it ends up on substack too, but this is where it starts. I also log entries of cool optimizations that engineers do in a blog called Optimizer's log
Projects - Build small projects that simplifies some part of my daily flow. Lately, i have been working on a micro feed that curates some top discussions, papers around running AI locally with smaller models.
Theme parties: Somewhere along the way we stop doing the things that are just fun. i love bringing people together around a topic, not what you do or where you work, just a shared thing. a game of catan, painting a coaster, talking too long over dinner. i host these whenever i can.
Beyond this i love helping and building communities, i occasionally help my friends at Build after dark or host developer breakfasts and more
