February 2026
- Location: Austin, TX
- Reading: "Clapton" by Eric Clapton
- Finished "Art Thief" by Michael Finkel - highly recommend, fascinating read
- Finished "Co-Intelligence" by Ethan Mollick
- Training: I've reprioritized my free time this year and am building out a more sustainable training plan to accommodate my shifting priorities (reducing from ~10 hrs/week to ~5-6).
- Learning: In Wk 3 of Post Graduate Program in Generative AI for Business Applications at UT Austin. This has been a mentally stimulating course where I'm now starting to understand what's going on underneath the hood.
- Built my first neural network in Python using TensorFlow and Keras to evaluate the MNIST dataset.
- Currently reviewing the Transformer architecture and starting work on the first project - building a stock sentiment analysis model from scratch.
- Guitar: Learned some great songs over the past month
- "Hold On" by Santana
- "Bad Love" by Clapton
- "Forever Man" by Clapton
- Thinking About: There are a few, highly impactful personal decisions that I am weighing my options on.
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