What am I doing now?

This is my “now” page inspired by Derek Sivers. It answers “what I’m doing now?“. My life, projects and priorities. I post an update here every 1-3 months.

What’s up as of March 2026?

March has its own rhythm in our house — Mother’s Day, my wife’s birthday, and the first day of spring all land within weeks of each other. It’s become a season for marking what matters. But this year, the theme stretches beyond celebration. Whether it’s returning to a London rooftop a year later, diving back into an AI course that’s evolved as fast as I have, or honestly assessing the AI assistant I’ve been building for months — March 2026 is about revisiting things and finding them different. Not because the things themselves changed all that much — but because I see them differently now.

🏰 Neverland on the Thirty-First Floor

Last March, we celebrated at Sky Garden — tropical plants, panoramic views, and a leisurely family brunch 155 metres above the Thames. This year, we went higher. The Peter Pan Afternoon Tea at Aqua Shard sits on Level 31 of The Shard, in a triple-height atrium with floor-to-ceiling windows and 360-degree views of London.

Savouries arrive on a Big Ben clock tower stand — salmon bagels, Lost Boys sandwiches, sausage rolls. Then comes a pirate ship laden with Tinker Bell macarons, fairy-dusted cakes, and gingerbread buccaneers alongside warm scones. The kids were wide-eyed. My wife loved every second. And I sat there thinking: this is exactly the kind of tradition worth building — same city, same season, a different rooftop each year.

🤖 Back to School: AI_devs 4

Almost exactly a year after wrapping up AI_devs 3, I'm back for the next edition — AI_devs 4: Builders. It's both exciting and humbling to see how far LLMs and AI agents have come in twelve months. What took me days to figure out last year now takes an afternoon — and the tools have caught up with the ambition.

Three weeks in, the biggest shift isn't technical — it's in how I work. I've adopted spec-driven development from the 10xDevs course, which means I spend most of my time writing markdown specification files, not code. I barely write any code at all, in fact. It feels like being a composer for an orchestra, or a product person shaping intent while Claude Code handles the execution.

Turns out the thing that matters most in this kind of development is being able to say clearly what you want — in writing. My leadership background is the secret weapon here. After each lesson, I ask Claude to write up a journey file with lessons learned, the path we took to the solution, and code snippets explained for a learner. That learner is me. A huge thanks to Adam Gospodarczyk, Jakub Mrugalski, and Mateusz Chrobok — three weeks in and I'm already grateful.

🔧 OpenClaw: The Honest Take

In my February update, I wrote about OpenClaw's first real-world test during our ski trip to Poland. Since then, I've kept building — and kept learning what "production-ready" actually means when it's your own system.

The daily tools I've built — research summaries, Tube times for my station, auto-sorted reading lists — are genuinely useful now. They've crossed the line from hobby project to things I'd miss if they stopped working. Trip Mode, refined after Poland, switches context automatically based on Obsidian trip notes.

But honesty demands the full picture: new OpenClaw versions break things, cron jobs burn tokens faster than expected, and LLM provider instability — rate limits, silent failures, missing model IDs — means the system needs more babysitting than I'd like. I spend more time reviewing what the system did than telling it what to do. That shift feels permanent. What I'm hoping is that the knowledge from AI_devs 4 will eventually equip me to build my own assistant from scratch — more reliable, fully secure, and shaped around how I actually work: markdown specs in, reliable actions out, no surprises.

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This page is inspired by Derek Sivers “now page” movement.

Updated: 28 Mar 2026