PSA your company or product website is your source of truth. While you may have a brand new launch or product or thousands of pages sitting within Google Docs, Notion, Obsidian, etc What the world knows about you is what is available to the internet eye. It’s even more important in an agentic world That scrapes your website, misses nuance, and has 10 other parallel agents checking potential competitors. Ensure your website is up to date. And lean into what makes you a unique snowflake!
Daily log
wrapped a few major Health and fitness milestones with 3 PBs. chatting with a few different founders. August is shaping up to be token-heavy, which feels like a dangerous metric and rather meaningless. excited to share a slew of new ships and text on where I think we’re headed next.
ten weeks ago i said i was withholding a bunch of projects “for now.” still withholding.
biggest struggle atm is what or how much to share in public.
perhaps the last daily log for now? starting a new repo for a quick n dirty new kenny.is website. messing around with some new models, and have this playing in the background
pushing this post as i’m restarting ai outputs after an extended break (sick).
one topic i’ve been exploring is how to think different… how models are predictable and those that are ai pilled have offloaded deep thinking to the models, to blindly march toward reinforcement completion.
new company perks:
- quarterly flower budget
- home depot renovation budget
- mattress, bedding, and blackout blinds budget
- yearly thrift books budget
- offsites with no laptops or tokens
- classes on cooking, gardening, and home renovation
- classes on being human: emotions, conflict, relationships, love, somatic experiences
Scotland kickoff in 2.5 hours and i’m cramming on a few experiments with figma and claude design systems.
A long time mentor/friend shared this video after we had a lengthy discussion on scorecards and comparison.
Another friend from Singapore launched a new biz focusing on helping founders grow calmly versus growth at all costs. They just received new business cards, and I love seeing friends launching and chasing new ventures. Happy friday.. gooo Scotland!
Vision questing, ideagazing, and deep work happen best off grid in minimal designed + low resting heart destinations. 35k feet is my ideal place for deep work, but i’m not flying anywhere to reach that peak state. i’m just over in west vancouver. A few quotes circled from journal.
You have to be a bad actor, and see them, before you can become a good one.
Everyone is a flower grower
Vancouver is world cup cray at the moment. Today, i’m teeing up a 2 week sprint to close out the q. Working on a new design system with claude for a new brand. Following that, spending a few hours tidying up this website css/styling/design love
starting a new dicovery collective called junastar! i’d rather show than tell… but things hit the feels and became real once that red starburst certificate of incorp hits your inbox. Mucho excitement.
new energy.. so for today i’ll start cleaning up my digital house (this website), figma reps + some design cycles + write a newsletter draft.
creative maps only take you so far
feel your way
Re - acting and the creative act
“total immersion into possibility. It’s infinitely interesting, there’s no bottom to it. A lot of it just great, deep, belief”
8:28 is like flying
ahh, already feeling soo much better about wispr flow
Quick reflection before kicking off several 30-day challenges. May had a bunch of highs and lows.
Highs = Lost 8 lb, increased VO2 max by 6 points and daily steps to 14k. Wrapped a number of personal and offline projects that I’m withholding for now.
Lows = last commit to Boom was over two weeks ago, newsletter over a month
My biggest takeaway for this month. Crushing offline or non digital to-do list items feels heavier. The good kind of heavy. More uplifting and carries momentum
Officially wrapped two projects today, as well as a bunch of personal DIY offline projects.
It’s been neat to watch Vancouver slowly decorate itself in time for the World Cup. Not entirely convinced locals are that excited but when it officially kicks off in two weeks I know it will mirror that of the 2010 Olympics.
On the builder side of things, today I submitted name requests for a company inc, which is always a lot of fun and thrilling bc things start to become real. More on that later.
Observation: there’s a lot of hype or focus on distribution first, especially from all of the marketing camps and marketing ai agent startups. Distribution for the sake of distribution. It’s one way of operating. <retracted>. if time allows it, I’ll write a few words and put some slides together on where we’re going or what has me excited. The questions I hear constantly within my circles from other builders not knowing what to build, which hills to stand on, and this obsession around distribution. More later
Speaking of obsession, I caught the breakout film Obsession earlier this week and highly recommend going in cold without a trailer.
