[notes] Mental State and Perceived Exertion

These days, I speak and write and think in terms of “working effectively” rather than “being productive”—a subtle shift in framing that matters a lot.

I try (and have mostly succeeded for the past year) to do daily, weekly, monthly, and annual reviews with a particular structure: wins, misses, learnings, mulling.

A very strange year: parts of it far exceeding my hopes, others falling rather flat.

My first-ever keynote! I am speaking at LambdaConf 2025, in May 2025, about open source software as a public good—indeed, as infrastructure.

TrainingPeaks Virtual (formerly IndieVelo) will only correctly send incline changes to the bike if it sees the bike primarily as a virtual trainer rather than as a power meter.