Now
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March 2026
March started well. Then my leg had opinions.
I went skiing in the Dolomites for a week. The mountains are beautiful, it was sunny. The snow was great. After the first day on the slopes, I took my boots off and my right leg was on fire. I strained my Peroneus badly enough that the rest of the trip was on crutches, not skis. I spent four days stuck at the apartment we rented while everyone else was on the snow, which was its own kind of experience. Not a good experience.
I’m still not running. The tendon is healing at the pace it has decided to heal at, which is slower than I’d like and I can’t do anything about that. My Q1 running KR is officially a write-off.
On the other hand: I did some flying, which always clears my head in a way nothing else quite does. There’s something about having to be completely present, completely focused on handling something complex and complicated, that sets everything else in perspective. I come back from every flight slightly more sorted than when I left.
I also took some colleagues shooting for the first time. If you’ve never introduced someone to shooting, I recommend it. The combination of focus, adrenaline, and the physics of the whole thing tends to produce a very particular kind of concentrated exhilaration in people who’ve never tried it before. They loved it. I loved it. It was a blast.
Goals
(Check the Goals page for week-by-week progress and numbers.)
This is the last review of my Q1 OKRs.
Objective: Advance my personal mastery and competence in body, mind, and action.
I injured my leg while skiing. That has stopped my running, not that it was going strong. That means I’m not going to run a race.
So, this KR has failed. But, I’m still confident about wanting to get back to it as soon as my legs allow.
On books, I keep reading, but I’m late with the reports. Still, I think this is mostly achieved.
First insight: A failed goal you still believe in isn’t a failure. It’s unfinished business.
Objective: Deliver helpful creations that people anywhere can use to improve their life in a practical, tangible way.
I dropped the 30-skill book KR. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Inklin is shipped. It’s still super basic, and I need to put some more time into the things that actually matter to users, which I can now learn directly from them: I apparently have a few users!
Second insight: Shipping something imperfect to real people teaches you more in a week than planning for a month.
On my mind
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart.