What I'm doing now

This page was updated April 23, 2025, from Hong Kong.

Health

I've been regularly bouldering for the past year and a half and pretty happy with the strength and health improvements. The better I get at it, the more fun it gets. Which I think is true of anything.

I've reduced swimming down to only one or two days a week, but still enjoy keeping in the water. I started adding 10-20 minutes on the stair climbing machine once or twice a week for improved cardio at the beginning of 2025.

I'm still taking the supplements from Bryan Johnson's Blueprint, but have found the nutty pudding and other "meals" are not very palatable.

Work

Over the western and Chinese holiday 2024-25 holiday season, I did some work on a rust-based series of tools for BNS and a more advanced BNS zonefile spec which will open BNS for more use cases besides just identity.

Based on discussions at Consensus Hong Kong with several OG members of the Stacks community and my long-term interest in bitcoin being more usable for payments, I decided to put the BNS work on hold and instead work on making sBTC a more bitcoin-like option for bitcoin payments.

Learning

I continue to study Italian part time on the side by reading short stories and watching videos. If I want to make more progress, I'm going to have to find something more structured and/or spend more time in Italy. I'm not sure if I want to make that investment...I'm leaning towards investing the time in improving my Chinese reading, writing and vocabulary.

The inexpensive digital piano is still great fun. I'm still going through Simply Piano and working on Czerny exercises. My sight reading seems to have improved and I enjoy playing to relax before bed.

I've sailed only once this year and our Etchells team got first in our class in a very fun pursuit race. Instead of actually sailing much, I'm helping our yacht club redraft their bylaws.

Travel

I've been largely in Hong Kong this spring save for a Chinese New Year trip to Bangkok and a few short trips to the Chinese mainland. One was a three night trip to the Wanda Changbaishan ski resort in northeast China where I learned to ski for the first time. A second trip was to Chongqing where I met someone from the Stacks community.

I don't have any long haul trips planned and am very much enjoying staying within the same time zone and not feeling jet lagged.

This page was inspired by Derek Sivers and his /now page.