This year’s theme: Just be good today
Engineering software seniorly at ServiceNow (acquired)
Consistently
- Three complete meals a day, protein and creatine supplement after exercise
- Bedroom by 10pm
- Lifting: working toward a 135-pound overhead press by the end of the year
- “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.” N.B. it helps to find the frogs the day before
Reading
- BOOM, Hobart and Huber (leaning away from my compulsion to buy everything published by Stripe Press, but never finishing the books)
Listening
- Baby sighs while she’s snoozing
- MIT machine shop instruction from the mid 90’s
Making
I wasn’t even going to click into this email from Per Aspera yet, “📊 In this economy?”, because I didn’t want to think about the economy during Prim’s Brazilian jiu-jitsu class. But, then I did, and there it was, and then I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
- Actuators, for instance, consume 30-55% of total humanoid BoM.
- A humanoid built with Chinese components costs $46,000 versus $131,000 using non-Chinese supply chains.
- Actuators alone: $22,000 versus $58,000.
That was Thursday. Now, I have a handful of Claude chats saved, with various approaches to getting at this problem laid out. It’s time to synthesize, hit the books (learn OED’s finally), and start reaching out to people (just as sooooon as I get some terminology under my belt).