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Last Update: March, 2026
What I’m up to now…
📍 Location
Still living in Paris since 2019 — now entering my 7th year in the capital.
🏠 Life
March has been a good month! Had a wonderful weekend in Strasbourg with great friends — gorgeous Airbnb, pretzels, riverside walks with the toddler, cherry blossoms starting to bloom. The kind of weekend that feels out of time.
🩵 The Baby™️ is now 2.5 years old and absolutely thriving. Lots of quiet family moments — neighborhood walks, playgrounds under the cherry blossoms, brunch spots. Building the life we want here.
🏃🏀 ⚽️ On the fitness front: got back into running properly this month. Barely ran in January, but the weather’s turning (occasional reaching 17° and sunny!) and so am I. Started last August and saw real progress by winter — starting earlier this year means I’m excited to see where that takes me by end of 2026. Still tracking everything on Strava. Weekly pickup basketball continues strong — almost 3 years of consistency now. Also got out to play football for once! Scored a goal and 2 assists.
☕ Upgraded my home coffee setup with a dedicated scale — the little details matter. More on this in a future update.
🌎 Big travel coming up: Easter weekend in Berlin (April 5-8) combining a family trip with an Itonics work trip. Already planning it out — looking forward to getting back there.
🎮 Play
Recent recommendations:
- 🎬 Letterboxd — Currently rewatching the Scream franchise ahead of the latest installment! Also caught the Dune: Part Three trailer — let’s gooooo!
- 📺 Trakt.tv — Recently finished the first seasons of Slow Horses and The Studio, both of which built up nicely as advertised!
- 🎶 Last.fm — Still heavy rotation of All Time Low post-concert, and, especially, the new Gorillaz album The Mountain. Also: latest from Yellowcard, A$AP Rocky, J. Cole. John Mayer remains my all-time #1.
- 📚 StoryGraph — Still working through Why We Love Baseball by Joe Posnanski on the Kindle Paperwhite — timing couldn’t be better with spring training underway!
- 🕹️ I’m tibzback on the PlayStation network but not much gaming time lately. Still on my daily kick of Wordle & Connections — both the NYT version and the Sports Edition on The Athletic.
- 📰 Reading a lot from The Athletic, NYT, and News+. Also got print delivery of Monocle and local paper Les Nouvelles d’Auber.
Live shows:
Upcoming shows getting real now: Billy Talent, Pennywise + The Ataris, A$AP Rocky, Simple Plan all later this year. Trying to get my hands on J. Cole tickets for his Paris date — just secured them! Also booked Nikki Glaser as a date night surprise for my wife in June.
Sports:
Season ticket holder at Paris Basketball — and honestly, it’s been rough. Up 10 at half time, down 10 by the end. 600 Serbian fans on their away day, another home defeat. Frustrating ending but logically things will need to change in the offseason. We did get back to our winning ways against ASVEL mid-month at least.
Baseball season is almost here. Go O’s ⚾
💭 Things I’m thinking about
- How to use Gen-AI thoughtfully — not for everything, but in smart ways that genuinely make me better at my job and life. Already built a couple of fun things that I’ll be sharing/writing about soon.
- There’s too much content. Juggling between an RSS reader, Substack, and everything else.
- Social media and fried brains in 2026. It’s frustrating, because as someone who’s strongly against social media, it remains the only place to learn about new cool things happening in town, or new restaurants/coffee shops opening.
- My digital rituals — long streaks on Duolingo, Paired, and 1 Second Everyday. Day One journaling.
- Creating family traditions with my wife and daughter — things that will actually stand the test of time.
- What’s next professionally. How to build work that fits life, not the other way around.