actively CREATING

Passion projects beyond the day job…

• Formula 1 e-course designed to help get new and old fans up to speed with the sport in 2025. Fast.

  • DONE lite-touch pulse surveys and guerilla market research to define an F1 e-course opportunity

  • DONE learned Canva to create a 60+ page presentation I’m proud of

  • DONE learned Loom to record me giving the presentation

  • DONE reconfigured and rearranged my office for a more efficient tech setup with a fun backdrop

  • DONE learning Descript with Underlord AI to edit my Loom recording via transcript

  • WIP learn how to launch my e-course on Stan.Store for their landing page and course hosting

  • TO DO social media marketing experiments to get just 200 of the 800M+ F1 fans to ‘buy me a coffee’ for this course

• Blog of life and career growth reflections — gradually transcribing and releasing my relevant handwritten journal entries from the past few years

• Custom GPT tinkering — currently troubleshooting my F1 driver phone wallpaper generator

APpETITE FOR NEXT

• setting up a new home for this blog on Wordpress under a new domain

• launching pilot episode of my “Hey! I’ve got a question…” podcast concept or revamping my Everyday Experiences Podcast with a totally different direction

• learning how to create a proper AI workflow then agent

• retroactively writing Blog posts for my guest appearances in podcasts & other shows

• merging my 2010 “For Better GENiUS” comedy-philosophy blog into this Blog

Memory dividends from the past year

By most recent…

• two low-key visits to Christchurch in two months—proving to myself that travel doesn’t need to be a ‘big’, planned expense

• 120-day sober ‘experiment’ = success

• driving Kiwibank’s first-ever Accessibility test of their digital banking experience by partnering with Access Advisors — a career goal I finally made come true

• becoming a dual New Zealand citizen ← read more about my journey

• hiking the 20km Tongariro Alpine Crossing over Mount Doom with my family

• playing and scoring in my first Touch Rugby pick-up game with the local club

• ‘retiring’ from stand-up and improv comedy production and performing after 3 years, such as The Dice Show NZICF24, POINTS! A Comedy Panel Game Show for Humans Being (pilot), This Might Get Weird

Books from the past year

Currently reading…

• Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferris

• Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan

• Lila by Robert M. Pirsig

In order of most recently finished since the start of the year…

• It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be by Paul Ardern

• Grand Prix: An Illustrated History of Formula 1 by Will Buxton

• Sir Lewis by Michael E. Sawyer

• A Good Leadership Book by Dan Lake

• The Collectors by David Baldacci

• Atomic Habits by James Clear (a second time)

• The 4–Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss

In the past year, but finished before the start of the year…

• Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss

• Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers

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If this ‘Now’ page concept has you intrigued, I encourage you to see Derek Sivers.