Recommendations

These are some things I’ve enjoyed and would recommend to others, with a brief explanation of why I think they’re worth your time.

AI

See this separate page.

Career Advice

• Do Cheap Tests (1) and (2) - Work on progressively larger projects in an area to figure out if you enjoy a career.
• Become a Person Who Actually Does Things

Musical Theatre

• “Hadestown” by Anaïs Mitchell. A sung-through American folk-inspired emotional journey. It won 8 Tony Awards and they’re all deserved.
• Everything by Dave Malloy, but particularly “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812”, “Preludes” and “Three Houses”.
• Shaina Taub’s Musicals. She has a fantastic orignal musical called “Suffs” that won two Tony awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score, and two musicals based on Shakespeare Plays: “Twelfth Night” and “As You Like It”.

Apps/Tools

• Obsidian and Notion for note-taking.
• Beeper for combining all my messaging apps, which makes it much easier to keep track of conversations.
• Readwise Reader for reading articles and books and subscribing to newsletters because it allows easy note-taking and highlights.
• Super Productivity for task management. It has scheduling, time tracking, categories, boards. Everything I need.
• Airtable for anything that requires storing large amounts of data that should be accessible to non-technical people.

Technology

• Ruby on Rails - Still the most developer-friendly web framework out there.
• astro.build - What I used for this website. Light and simple.
• Kamal - Massively simplify your deployments.
• Omakub - Great developer setup for Ubuntu 24.04+]