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Last Update: October 11th, 2026

What I’m up to now…

📍 Location

Still in Paris, year 7 — and settling into the best rhythm this city gives you: school drop-offs, a run along the canal, and the neighbourhood slowly turning into its autumn self. The staycation energy of August is long gone, but the trade is Wednesday-morning coffee dates by the canal and finally ticking off the places you’ve walked past for years. This week: Marché Aligre, finally, with an hour to myself.

🏠 Life

🩵 Azul is a few weeks into maternelle and the drop-off run is now a fixed part of the week — one that pairs suspiciously well with a run and a café afterwards. The Wednesday-morning version of this (run → coffee date with Shana at the canal-side café) was my sanity routine, last month.

💿 The record collection got its winter overhaul: one last shipment incoming, and then we’re good until spring. Shana made the very fair observation that the shelves were too male-heavy, so this round was deliberately about fixing that with some of our favourites. Also: the Mac Miller estate is doing incredible work — I picked up the Good A.M. 10th anniversary edition, with Watching Movies With The Sound Off and The Divine Feminine on the way.

🎧 The other big music moment: I made it into Fontaines D.C.’s DOPAMINE CHAMBER listening party at Ground Zero, my local record store — line around the block, 60-70 of us packed in with goodie bags. The album is a different beast from Romance: more reverb, more synths, almost dystopian. Where Romance was stadium joy, Dopamine Chamber is the comedown. Standouts: the 80s noir of Mimesis, and Where Is Gone? with ROSALÍA — full Bond ballad energy. Picking up my order when the album drops, and the concert in November is already circled.

☕ The coffee project is still brewing — quietly, slowly, and still the thing I’ve felt most aligned with in a long time. More on that one day. (tibz.blog/coffee)

🏃 🏀 The leg is fully back, the school-run runs are stacking up, and Thursday-night basketball is firmly in the calendar. We are SO BACK — and so is Paris Basketball (see below).

📚 The library network remains the quiet MVP of the year. Borrowing over buying, no regrets.

💼 Work

New era, officially underway. I wrapped up my final day at ITONICS at the end of September — a genuinely good run, including a customer emailing my manager, our CEO and our co-founder entirely unprompted — and on October 5th I started at Steerlab.ai as their founding Customer Success Manager. Back to my startup roots, and building the CS function from zero, which is exactly the shape of work I wanted. More on all of it at tibz.work.

🎮 Play

Recent recommendations:

• 🎬 Letterboxd — the Al Pacino rabbit hole from the summer’s audiobook carried all the way into horror season. Recent diary: Resident Evil (★★★½) — much funnier and much jump-scarier than expected, body-horror galore, and weirdly faithful to the games. The Invite (★★★★) and 40 Years of Fuckin' Up, the NOFX documentary I caught at the Paris screening, were the month’s other wins. October is doing October things: the original Friday the 13th for the second time, and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. As a palate cleanser until I continue with the Jason franchise. The Godfather run continues in the background — Scarface is still queued up.

• 📺 Trakt — the current watch is Jay-Z in 8, a really fascinating and insightful look into one of the greatest rappers alive. With the basketball season and concert season both back, TV is in its autumn holding pattern — the The Wire rewatch and the rest of the queue can wait for winter nights.

• 🎶 Last.fm — the month in records: Fontaines D.C.’s Dopamine Chamber singles on repeat since the listening party, Mac Miller anniversary editions on the turntable, and the shelf-rebalancing project pushing some long-overdue female artists back into rotation. On streaming, it’s all J. Cole — revisiting the catalogue ahead of the concert, and late-stage J. Cole is really dope. Also in heavy rotation: Kings of Leon, and Olivia Rodrigo’s latest, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl in Love.

• 📚 StoryGraph — Yesteryear is still going: the tradwife-influencer satire everyone’s been talking about since spring, and Shana’s book-club endorsement still holds. It’s taken a slow turn between Halloween horror rewatches, the start of the basketball season, and concert season — some books wait for you, this one’s worth it. The graphic-novel pipeline hasn’t slowed down though: Batman: White Knight (★★★★) to open October, New York, New York from the Tamaki cousins (★★★½), Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 2, and Sex Story by Philippe Brenot — the library network keeps delivering.

• 📰 The Athletic, Le Parisien, L’Équipe, News+. etc…

Live shows:

Recently: A$AP Rocky — an amazing night. The AWGE Paris Fashion Week runway show in the arena before the gig, then Rocky starting from inside the crowd, riding mini helicopters, mosh pits, and surprise appearances from Rihanna, baby Riot and Tyler, the Creator. Never the most skilled rapper, always one of the most creative showmen in his scene.

Also this fall: the NOFX documentary screening (40 Years of Fuckin' Up, ★★★★ on Letterboxd) and one wonderful piece of insanity with a good friend — IYKYK.

Coming up: post-Ed Sheeran controversy Macklemore, Fontaines D.C. in November, then Simple Plan, J. Cole and Good Charlotte before the year is out.

2027 is still stacking up: Weezer in May with Taking Back Sunday opening, and Hayley Williams, Blink-182 at La Défense Arena in June with Pierce The Veil supporting.

Sports:

🏀 Paris Basketball is BACK — season opener attended, second home reoccupied, season ticket renewed, obviously. The whole summer haul is on the floor now: T.J. Warren, Tyson Etienne, Alize Johnson, Terry Tarpey, Mãozinha Pereira, and the second Prince of the summer, The French Prince himself, Frank Ntilikina. After losing the Betclic Élite final in a decisive Game 5 to Monaco, this rebuild has all the makings of a revenge tour. #ParisPourParis

⚾ Baltimore Orioles — season over. Not the one. Go O’s regardless, see you in spring.

🏀 The Washington Wizards got lucky in the draft lottery and took their guy — after years of suffering, a little luck was overdue. Watching that develop is the NBA side-story of the season.

💭 Things I’m thinking about

• Two months ago I wrote that leaving a job you’re actually good at, on purpose, is harder than leaving one you hate. The follow-up: it’s also the best decision I’ve made in years. Day one at Steerlab felt like coming home to the shape of work I actually wanted.
• The people who showed up when I made the decision for myself — still the most useful thing I learned this year.
• Vinyl as a family project: Shana’s “we don’t have enough female artists” audit turned a shopping list into a genuine re-listen of our own shelves. Fixing a collection tells you what you’ve been ignoring.
• A €50 vintage bike and two keychain cameras doing more for quality of life than any app purchase this decade. Friction as a feature.
• Azul’s first school year, six weeks in — how one September morning quietly rearranges the next decade of mornings.
• 13+ years of this iteration of the blog, still the least strategic thing I do, still the thing I’d miss most.