What I'm Focused On
Updated: February 2026
If we ran into each other after a year apart, here's what I'd tell you.
Work
linslow.com is live. Positioning: clarity for executives. Working with a few clients on content strategy, AI integration, and deal advisory.
Groups
I spend a lot of time on groups. It's how I learn and stay honest with myself.
- Tuesday Men's Club - 25 sessions and counting. Biweekly at Wende Museum starting March.
- Short Story Discussion Group - Four friends reading two short stories a month since 2022. Archive at ssdg.me with 16 free full-text story links.
- David Whyte Study Group - Reading Consolations with Yvonne. Most recently: "Besieged." Next: "The Cost of Love" (March 12).
Writing
2025 Annual Review published. Daily writing practice (morning pages, session notes, group prep). Trying to write more publicly.
Family
Amy runs a creative business teaching crafting, scrapbooking, and lettering. Jack is 12 and into basketball and gaming. June is 5 and into everything. They take up the good kind of time.
School
Spring 2026 at a local university: symbolic logic (PHILOS 9) and calculus (MATH 7). I'm not sure where it leads.
Other
- The California Walk - An annual hiking trip I help organize. Site is live. April 2026.
What I'm Reading
Books
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis — on labor and the gap between aspiration and doing
- A Beginner's Japanese Guide by Pico Iyer — essays on performance, devotion, the impersonal
- Recently finished: Autumn Light by Pico Iyer
Essays & Poetry
- David Whyte's Consolations — studying with a reading partner; most recently: "Besieged"
- Various Buddhist texts — yearlong program at Santa Monica Meditation Center
Short Stories
Reading 2 stories a month with SSDG since 2022. Recent: Murakami's "A Poor-Aunt Story," Bertino's "Can Only Houses Be Haunted?" Full archive at ssdg.me.
Articles & Events
- "Haruki Murakami Isn't Afraid of the Dark" — NYT, Feb 2026
- George Saunders on revision — Electric Literature, Jan 2026
- Katie Kitamura reading at Hammer Museum — Feb 2026
What's Next
- TMC Session 26 (Mar 3)
- DWSG: "The Cost of Love" (Mar 12)
- Spring semester midterms
- California Walk (April 2026)
This page is inspired by Derek Sivers' /now page movement.