June 29, 2025
Health
- Mobility work – I’ve made some strides in this area but want to keep using all the following tools to improve my mobility and flexibility: Chiropractor, Stretchlab, Flexbuddy, Yoga Body, Physmodo
- Moderate my phone usage – Decreased screen time maybe 15% last quarter but the trackers say i’m around 5 hours a day. I think that’s a little misleading but still something I want to improve.
- A few things I’m going to try out:
- Keeping my phone in my backpack during the work day
- Keeping my phone away from me while I’m home
- Swapping phone with Kindle for reading
- Maybe sleeping with phone phone in the other room which seems scary but worth a try
- Limiting social media to 45 mins a day
- A few things I’m going to try out:
- Continue Headspace streak – Just crossed 100 days in a row and want to keep that going as long as I can. Mostly listen to this on my commute or in transit and wondering if it would be more effective doing in silence and quiet with my eyes closed so will give that a try or two
- Keep steps above 8000 per day – In April I was averaging 5,500 steps a day by May that was 7,200 and in June just crossed a daily average of 8100. Beating that sounds like a lot but i’m certainly going to try. I’ve started watching TV on a treadmill which helps me get some steps in and also trying to get my Zone 4/5 Cardio numbers up
- Stealth 275 – My numbers are dropping based on working frequently from the office but I am seeing gains and want to keep the progress going.
Wealth
- Continue to work with my assistant – I’m now ~2 months into working with an assistant who helps me 10-20 hours a week and she’s fantastic. Many of the tasks I give her are ad hoc which means each week I’m coming up with a list. I need to develop larger books of work and a backlog for her to work on and make time to manage and action the things she sends my way. Trying to find the sweet spot between giving her tasks that don’t require my input / actioning but often the barrier is access and giving her inbox/Linkedin access doesn’t feel right quite yet so thinking through that
- Money review and proactive planning – My wife and I are due for a quarterly review of our finances. We do a light weight review of spending across major categories and adjust where appropriate. More importantly, I want to spend some time exploring more active investments like Mainshares, Percent, Real Estate etc and anything that would let us own a thing or a business vs. passive funds.
- Experiment with more AI tools – I’m now a daily user of Perplexity which I find to be markedly better than Google Search. Want to expand my reps on other tools including: Vercel, Replit, Cursor, Google AI Studio and others. Part of this is driven by wanting to stay ahead but part of this is very much driven by AI Doom and Gloom. I worry about the working world and white collar work in an AI first world and what it means for me long term.