Daybook, 19 July 2026
Sunday, and everyone was busy with the World Cup final. I was finally moving myself from Mountain View to San Jose. Packed a lot of books, and midway one of the boxes gave out — struggled with it, kind of hurt my back a bit hauling the heavy ones. But that's fine.
The one deliberate thing I did today: wrote a couple of emails to professors and institutions, pitching one of the new ideas. That's the plan I'd set for myself — work on something alone first, then find the right lab or institution to build it with — finally putting it into motion.
Other than that, reading. I've started The Correspondent and Homer's Odyssey, going between the two on and off — I always keep a book on me wherever I'm traveling, and this weekend was mostly travel. Tomorrow I've got coworking sessions with a few of the business-unit leads, on how to design an enterprise operations and resource-planning system, built AI-natively.
Settled · 19 Jul 2026
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