What I'm Focused On
Updated: July 2026
If we ran into each other after a year apart, here's what I'd tell you.
Work
Linslow is my consulting practice. Working with clients on content strategy, creator economics, and deal advisory. Spring was about finding ways to use AI to bring subscription businesses into real-world scenarios: building, shipping, and taking in lots of market feedback. The summer work is settling those systems into steady operation, plus some new advisory conversations. Also revisiting the New Form era through a long-form post-mortem.
Groups
I enjoy some ongoing groups. I find them to be fulfilling and often get to hear myself say things that I didn't know I was thinking.
- Tuesday Men's Club. Over a year in. 33 sessions, biweekly at Wende Museum, Culver City.
- Short Story Discussion Group. Four friends, going on four years, 40+ sessions since 2022. Archive at ssdg.me.
School
Spring semester at Santa Monica College (symbolic logic and calculus) wrapped with finals in June. I haven't been a regular student in a long time. Showing up daily to a place, doing the homework, sitting for exams: that has changed something. Now it's summer Calculus 2, four evenings a week through mid-August. The longer aim is testing whether the ground exists for more advanced mathematics or economics work; a decision point on that comes this month.
Family
Amy runs a creative business teaching crafting, scrapbooking, and lettering. Jack is 12 and into track and gaming; he ran middle-school meets this spring. June is 5 and into everything. We went to Tokyo in March. June became obsessed with Cinnamoroll, the Sanrio character. We now have a collection of stuffed, plastic, and ceramic versions all over the house.
Writing
Daily writing practice (morning pages, almost every day for years). The 2025 Annual Review is up. Currently working on a long-form New Form Digital post-mortem: a way of thinking about what mid-form video tried to do. Plus more personal writing on the side: weekly notes, a monthly review practice, a slow-building commonplace book of quotes.
What I'm Reading
- A Slender Thread by Diane Ackerman
- The London Review of Books
- The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson
- Clarice Lispector
- "Genius" by David Whyte (from Consolations, vol. 1)
What's Next
- Summer Calculus 2, evenings through mid-August; a decide-or-pivot moment on the graduate-economics question this month
- Settling the relaunched creative-business site into its new life: subscriptions, operations, the quieter work after a launch
- "For Practitioners" beta: prototyping a workstream for people doing the daily work inside their organizations. The first piece is a peer room: a small, recurring, no-obligations show-and-tell of things people have shipped with LLMs. First sessions ran in June; a third is forming.
- New Form principals interview project, in motion
What Just Happened
- A friend's wedding in Oaxaca over the Fourth of July: family trip, laptop mostly closed.
- Spring finals done: symbolic logic and Calculus 1, both complete.
- Helped a creative-business client relaunch their site publicly at the end of May: a months-long build, shipped.
- The California Walk: 75 miles, Santa Cruz to Big Sur, solo. Apr 16-19.
- Jack won his 400m heat at the track meet.
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