Last update: Sunny Thursday Morning — July 16th, 2026
Current essentials:
- I am on the Pro Leisure Circuit. I used to work at Apple. Apple fascinates me.
- I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. I’ve lived here my whole life. I take care of a forest. Some of the trees have names.
- I write all the time. You’re soaking in it.
- I bike a lot. I wish I wrote “all the time.”
- We said we’d do 100 episodes of the podcast, and then we’d be done. Episode 100 just shipped. It has a proper home now: importantthing.show.
- There is a newsletter now. It’s the writing in your inbox. Robots are not involved.
The next books:
- The next leadership book has a name: A Day in the Life of a Senior Leader. You can pre-order it. I’m publishing chapters here as I finish them.
- I’m also editing the 5th edition of Managing Humans. We’re putting the right pen on the cover.
- Still writing the autobiography thing. No planned date, but writing.
This now page is a curated idea by Derek Sivers. I like it.
A human, not a robot, wrote this page. (A robot edited it.)
