What I'm Doing Now?

(This is a now page, and if you have your own site you should make one, too.)

I finally recovered. Two long sicknesses (first with flu then RSV) caused me to gain a few extra kilos. So, the first goal is to get back to exercising and then prepare for the Berlin Triathlon I registered to participate on June 7th. On the way, I aim to shed a few kilos.

Meanwhile, I took two weeks of vacation and decided to stay in Berlin and dedicate time to learn AI. I felt I was falling behind in this industry-changing times and wanted to learn as much as I could. I’m sharing the whole journey on this blog and also on my newsletter. I’m not into developing AI agents left and right or very custom tools or so. What I want to do is to learn what the hell is going on. Then, the time will show what I can do.

Building with AI

I subscribed to Claude Max (💸) to test the waters during my vacation and create an application for myself that I wanted for years. I had a $20 subscription but I hit its limit in 15 minutes 😅. Damn Claude, you’re expensive. I still feel uncomfortable to lock myself to Claude ecosystem. However, it’s super comfortable. I can practically develop an application while walking my dog. What I’m missing is testing other models. Luckily, I have access to other models at work.

Anyway, I’m full into the building mode with Claude. It feels amazing. I now can send blog articles from my phone with a newly built custom app. I will use it to feed my Journal section more with shorter journal-like posts on my progress with all the things written on this page.

Theater

In the last six months, I have been trying to continue my journey in Improv Theater. I am finishing the third level of Improv, which focuses on Patterns and Repetition. I must say this level is difficult. This is my fourth class (Level 1, Level 2.1 and 2.2) and oh boy, I feel awkward during the class because I don’t get it. But whatever, it’s still fun to push my brain into something unrelated to technology. It’s still way outside of my comfort zone and I constantly fail. In every class, there are so many moments where I fail. It’s good to learn how that feels. It sucks. But it’s still fun because you know what: there is nothing at stake!

As a next step, before continuing the level 4, I decided to take a slight detour and signed up for a class for scripted acting! It’s the first level class and I think it will be fun!

This hobby, learning how to act, how to be spontaneous, and how to create a character, stay in it and abstract it from yourself blows my mind sometimes. I love every piece of it. If you’re in Berlin, let me know and I’m happy to talk about this hobby and maybe we perform something together? Why not make ourselves a little sillier together?

Writing

Somehow, I’m also getting back to writing more often. I finally fell in love with my remarkable 2 again and my remarkable Paper Pro Move keeps me on track as I can carry it around wherever I like.

I also started journaling again and I want to keep it to even though 10 minutes per day.

As a side note, my parents are travelling Japan. I asked them to buy me a new fountain pen (Sailor Professional Gear with EF nib). I’m reaaaaally looking forward to using it!

Reading

• I’m listening to Antifragile by Taleb.
• I’m reading Co-Intelligence by Mollick.

Meanwhile, I’m very much into the Discworld series by Pratchett. I’m reading in the published order and finished the fourth book. Amazing.

Work

I am still working as an Engineering Manager at SumUp.

On the side, I was a part-time trainer for the AI Software Engineering Bootcamp by Digitale Leute for their first batch. I decided to step back from it due to a shift in my focus to building with AI.

Family and Friends Time

I spend time with my wife, whom I love and who is empathetic, beautiful, intelligent, sensual, and loving—a fantastic human being.

I also spend time with my friends, better called my selected family, as they are fantastic people.