Now

It’s Easter weekend, and cherry blossoms are fully blooming in Stockholm. Spring has finally embraced this part of Sweden, and everything, including me, is slowly coming back alive again.

After a long, exhausting stretch at work, I finally feel like I’m waking up again. It’s been a tough couple of years — but now there’s curiosity, energy, and momentum again.

Over the past year, I’ve been focusing on building generative AI systems for an undisclosed client. This prompted me to dive into Python after 15+ years working with .NET and C# and sparked a new interest in linguistics and semantics and a new intersection between software development, architecture, and data science.

Currently reading: The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman.

Lately, I’ve been curious about combining knowledge graphs with generative systems. That interest goes back to 2021 when I started using Obsidian and got hooked on discovering unexpected connections between ideas.

One of my aims right now is finding a workable balance between analytical depth and speed of output. I’m learning how to balance when analytical depth is needed and speed of output is desired. This resonates with my other “areas of improvement,” like growing my strategy and communication skills. Right now, I’m trying to write every day, even when it’s rough. The focus is simple: more output.

Over the last year, I’ve picked up photography again. I’ve been periodically photographing over the last twenty years, but I started with intention last year. Right now, I’m drawn to contemporary photography, like documentary or street photography, which finds beauty in the mundane. I think it is a required countermeasure to all artificially generated content.