01 · Focus
Driving AI and cloud adoption
Turning AI and cloud tooling from scattered experiments into practical engineering habits: safe defaults, useful docs, repeatable workflows, and clear boundaries.
Now · May 2, 2026
What I am focused on this month.
Backend on payments by day, AI and cloud adoption DRI work by night.
02 · Focus
Hardening payment workers
Reducing ambiguity in queue-driven backend flows with better observability, retry behavior, and operational ownership.
03 · Focus
Writing the second brain
Turning work and learning notes into reusable engineering context without copying private company details into public spaces.
Reading
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (re-read), assorted post-quantum crypto papers
Watching
Severance S2, Slow Horses
Up next
A Docker KL talk follow-up post and a small CLI for redacting screenshots before they reach the LLM.
Not on the list
- · Cold-call recruiters
- · Hot takes about AGI timelines
Inspired by Derek Sivers' nownownow. Updated by hand each month.