What I'm up to - November 2023

This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media.

What I did in October

Switched my daily driver Aeropress coffee recipe to this one by Jonathan Gagné. It produces delicious results. (His book Physics of Filter Coffee is excellent.)
Witnessed the aftermath of a bike crash, did some activism, and got featured in an article on Curbed.
Booklet, the modern email software I make, as a bunch of new features.
Postcard, the personal website software I make, continues to grow as people leave the site formerly known as Twitter.
Made some light updates to the Contraption Company website.

Articles : How Linear builds products. "What I tell employees about negative press." How Not To Sort By Average Rating.
Music : nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana
Podcasts : Charlie Munger on Acquired.
Apps : Cursor, an AI-first code editor, has replaced VSCode as my daily development tool. Dutch Cycling Lifestyle is a fun use of AI.
Trend : While chat is the best-known product from OpenAI, the Embeddings feature is powerful and being incorporated into many products in ways that are not obviously "AI."
Videos: Magnus Midtbø did some videos with Norwegian military that gave a documentary-like glimpse into their lives.
Coffees I'm drinking: Tim Wendelboe Caballero Geisha.

Let me know if we overlap.