2025 Recap
No pretty charts this year. I declared tracking bankruptcy sometime in September, too many things to keep up with, from date nights to meat meals to sleep scores. And work and...
2025 Goals
Intentional goals across family time, design leadership, and personal health for the year ahead.
2024 Recap
We settled into a new normal with lots of travel for Cat, a big tech job for me, and the kids transitioning schools. It was a busy year…
2024 Goals
I caught Cat in a moment of weakness: we spent one of our recent dates discussing and hammering out our 2024 goals. This year, we have…
2023 Recap
Lots of changes on the Botel front. Cat published her book and went on book tour. I quit my job and t̶o̶o̶k̶ ̶a̶ ̶b̶r̶e̶a̶k̶ started a…
2023 Goals — Better Late Than Never
I know, I know. This post is late. It’s basically April. In my defense, I outlined this post in December. When I went to flesh it out, the…
2022 Recap
Thanks 2022, I almost forgot what it was like to do normal things like hang out with friends, go on vacation, eat at a restaurant, etc. The…
2022 Goals
Last year was rough, and some of that spilled into 2022.
2021 Recap
I moved into my childhood home and spent four months watching my dad die. Losing a parent is a (mostly) universal human experience. Other…
2021 Goals: Reframing a crisis
I was gonna write something witty and topical. I was; I swear. But every time I wrote something, there was coup or an impeachment or some…
2020 Recap
Well, that was a disaster. I have nothing meaningful to say about our collective experience. It’s well documented.
2020: Time & habits, but mostly time
The workday leaves me exhausted and wondering what I did, where the day went. During the day, in the time between meetings, I find myself…
2019 Recap
It’s been an eventful year. I watched my son evolve from helpless slug into a willful agent of destruction. I presented at WWDC. I started…
2019 Goals: Finish More Things
Let me give you a lens into my madness.
Thanks for the encouragement!
I have scattered, unfinished blog posts and half-baked ideas in text files, notebooks, and Medium drafts. I’ll migrate them to a central…
2018 Goals Recap
Last year, I set a goal to write more. I wanted to average one blog post a month. I was too optimistic. And other, unexpected priorities…
New Years Goals
I have a mental block when it comes to writing. It’s crippling. I sit around and feel sorry for myself. I thrash between playing video…