📚Finished reading Devil In The Stack. A writer decides to learn to code with Python while also digging into the history, culture and the possible threats it can have on society. A dense book I would recommend for those who want a thoughtful perspective on coding.
📚Learned about the Hamptons and regional recipes in Ralph Lauren style by his amazing wife Ricky Lauren. Her own stories, Hamptons history and beautiful styling of imagery and recipes. 😎
🧑🏻🚀 I've been working on an AI "science project", PromptBasic! What if you combined the Visual Basic 3 IDE but instead of code in event handlers you used prompting? Take a look at what me and Claude have been working on!
📚 As I broaden my reading horizons, I came across a challenging (in a good way) science fiction book called There Is No Antimemetics Division. I loved the concept of the "monsters" being ideas or entities that resist being known or remembered.
I want to go to a Scholastic Book Fair and get a Dynamite magazine and multiple Choose Your Own Adventure books! 📚
YAAAAS! Xcode 26.3 supports using Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex. Looks like my afternoon schedule is full!
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
🧑🏻🚀 Realitynauts! Google Deepmind just dropped Project Genie 3 which allows you to create virtual worlds from text with their AI capabilities! This kind of tool is critical for immersive spatial experiences to take off.
labs.google/projectgenie
🧑🏻🚀 Realitynauts! Snap Inc. has created a Specs subsidiary for their Specs spatial glasses. Not only does this allow them to be more agile, but it helps them grow as well with adding a ton of jobs - yes, I am looking through the Seattle-area opportunities now! 🤓
newsroom.snap.com/introducing-...
Had a conversation with someone about AI + Design workflow with designers and engineers, was so much fun! I had sent some links after and now want to share them with you too!
Yes, it's on LinkedIn, sorry! 😉
www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas...
📚Finished reading Ryan Holiday's final book in the stoic virtue series called Wisdom Takes Work. Feels like the culmination of Courage, Discipline and Justice books in the series while providing relevant historical (and sometimes current) context with practical approaches. Absolutely recommended!
Anthropic announced their new constitution for Claude. Many organizations tend to do things like this as lip service, BUT Anthropic actually baked it into their training of their models! Kudos to them truly incorporating in their systems! 👏🏻
www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
📚 Finished reading The Tex-Mex cookbook... Wait... Can you "read" a cookbook? Yes! Found this on a Half-Price Books adventure with the Tenderoni which has a lot of history around how Tex-Mex food came to be what it is today! Was excited to find the previous owner's recipes in the book as well.
Watched the Men's Ralph Lauren Fall 2026 Presentation! The collegiate and evening wear pieces really caught my eye this year. Was great to see the combination of the classic Polo line shown with the upscale Purple line! 🐎
Watch (13 minutes): youtu.be/LJW8utbSbIU?...
📚 Finished my first book of the new year. Although I don't think the noir-inspired writing worked for me, I really appreciated the theme of empathy as a way to define humanity. Definitely a good book to think about after the last page!
I wrote a thing last week. Learn about Google Antigravity in 3 hours + an approach to quickly learning a tech/tool! ✍🏻
www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas...
📚 At the beginning of this year, I made a priority (instead of resolution) to read 26 books, I met that goal! So this year I am going to attempt to read 52 books!
The Tenderoni told me to go to my favorite places today. I asked what those places were. She responded “Ralph Lauren and Barnes & Noble.” I LOVE THAT WOMAN!
Update: Got new clothes & books!
How I refound the tool that started my career, Visual Basic 3. 💜
www.linkedin.com/pulse/refind...
Instead of reading my book while waiting for him to come on stage, I talked to other stoics from a variety of backgrounds and was so good to hear their stories about how stoicism helped them! If you are interested, here is what I wrote about it:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/challe...
Last night, introvert me drove into Seattle at night to see Ryan Holiday (from The Daily Stoic) speak about preparing for 2026. I was front row and in the center about 20 feet away from Ryan! After having a rough day, I was glad to find the energy to go...
Today is one of those days that I will just have to suck it up and endure. Feels overwhelming. But I do know that things will get better, they always do.
🌌 Are you an astronomy nerd* like me? Then you should watch this!
* - I once at university dabbled with the thought of being an astronomer.
youtu.be/zozEm4f_dlw?...
How does someone keep themself from buying an outdoor pizza oven? Asking for a friend. 🍕
Spoiler: I am the friend.
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📚 I could have prepared for Wednesday night's premiere of Season 5 Volume 1 (the final season) watching previous seasons, instead decided to Choose Your Own Adventure my way instead! 3 bad choices already though... 😆
Hey everyone! Been working on a contract project which has now finished, so you will hopefully see me a bit more often here. I'm researching fun stuff and digging into some tech and will share my adventures and learnings! 🧑🏻🚀
With so many things going on, being able to put on an AR device and visually orchestrating the various agents + workflows could be productive. Going to spend some time considering this scenario. 🧑🚀
🧑🏻🚀 Realitynauts! After watching this launch video on Google Antigravity (which I will be researching over the next couple of weeks), I think there may be a really interesting Spatial Computing for AI development here.
youtu.be/SVCBA-pBgt0?...
It wasn't for me (had learned the lessons through stoicism), but I could absolutely see myself recommending to folks who could use it. Suggest reading the first chapter or two at the bookstore and see if it is for you!
