Reminder: We’ll be in Amsterdam from 19 March — 21 March. Then in Berlin from 22 March — 25 March. We’ll be back near AMS in Haarlem on 26 March — 27 March.

Happy to meet up with any of you fine folks. I love turning online acquaintances into ILR friends. Email to arrange.

10 Days out from our Amsterdam and Berlin trip. Finally have the big rocks scheduled so can now try to plan a Micro Meetup in one or both.

Who’s in? Shoot me an email (even if you have already) and let’s find a day/time/place.

FWIW we are staying near the botanical garden in AMS.

Very excited to have my signed official copy of my friend Steve Young’s book, Kissinger’s Betrayal.

Need to redesign both my professional site and my business site and I’m just not finding the mental bandwidth to think about it.

Today’s Lunch:

Mediterranean Charcuterie Board.

All items from Trader Joe’s.

Currently reading: The January 6th Report by Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol 📚

Popcorn and highlighter not included.

Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚

Simply sublime. I have so much more to say but will need a while to sit with it a bit.

Seriously, make this your next read.

I’m still reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I’m about halfway through and enjoying it very much so far. It’s fantastic. That said, I feel compelled to share something I’ve come to figure out while reading it.

The book takes place in the world of digital game development and, for those of us who are not gamers and not particularly familiar with that world, one might be put off by that and decide to avoid the book. But here’s the thing… Gaming in this case is a MacGuffin. It could be replaced with any collaborative creative endeavor and the story and characters would be just as compelling.

So, if the setting and subject matter made you disregard or avoid this book, please don’t let it. This is trending to be one of my favorite books I’ve read in a very long time.

I do sincerely hope that some game designers/developers somewhere are hard at work on Ichigo: A Child of The Sea.

Currently reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚

I wanna be just like the cool kids.