What I’m Doing These Days
Early 2025 Edition
Work
Currently in my 11th year at The Walt Disney Company. I am a Senior Product Manager in Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T) focusing on metadata, taxonomy, and ontology systems for the digital media supply chain. Basically, I make sure all the data across all of our 200+ planning, creation, curation, and distribution systems flow to Disney+, Hulu, Star+, or Hotstar without shitting the bed.
Health
2025 will be my “Year of Habits.” Forming new good ones, and breaking old bad ones. I’ve always been okay at maintaining both physical and mental health, but there’s room for growth. I turn 49 in January, and I want to be in the best shape of my life by the time I turn 50. I think that’s a reasonable goal for physical health.
On the mental health side, I’ve switched from a text-based chat app to video meetings for therapy. I really appreciate the immediacy of face-to-face interaction for this. I’m still trying to convince my therapist that I don’t have any buried trauma to unearth — I just want to become a better communicator.
Speaking of mental health, I’m completely off Twitter, Threads, and Instagram now. I’ve been off of Facebook for a decade now. The content moderation policies and algorithms of these companies since Trump was re-elected have turned into rage-filled horseshit, and I want nothing to do with them. I’m keeping my accounts on all of these services to reserve my username and following/followers in the hope that someday Zuck and Musk move on and a sane person takes over again. I’m on Bluesky and Mastodon, links in the sidebar!
Technology
Still enjoying my Vision Pro headset and use it semi-regularly. It’s especially great for travel. I’ve moved away from Obsidian for now and am using Notion for all notes and work stuff. Obsidian is great, but I realized I was running so many plug-ins and extensions that the “these are just plain text files” benefit of Obsidian’s Markdown format was wasted. My text files were essentially unreadable outside of the app. Notion also has the benefit of an API, so I can send data from anywhere (even my Apple Watch) without worrying about sync issues.
I also got my son a Windows laptop for schoolwork. I considered a Chromebook, but there are rumors that ChromeOS is being phased out in favor of Android, so Windows it is. Now I have to re-learn Windows after 20 years away from it.
Current hardware list:
- iPhone 16 Pro
- Apple Watch Ultra 2
- 2024 M4 iPad Pro 11 w/Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil Pro
- 2021 iPad mini
- M1 Max Mac Studio at home
- 2021 16” MacBook Pro at work
- Apple Vision Pro
Current Software Stack
- Notes: Notion for personal notes, Apple Notes for shared items
- Tasks: Reminders for personal tasks (may go back to OmniFocus after the holidays), Notion for work-related tasks
- Development: Postman, Visual Studio Code
- RSS: Readkit
- AI: ChatGPT, Perplexity
Current Home Screen
My current home screen is very Notion-heavy.
- Top widget is the stock iOS Calendar
- Second row: Notion widgets for my JimmyOS dashboard and Timering time tracking dashboard
- Bottom row: Notion widgets for a placeholder Notion page that gets automatically renamed if a timer is running and my Habit Tracker dashboard.
- Dock: Notion (probably don’t need this here), My “Notification Center” folder, M365 CoPilot, and ChatGPT
Current Home Screen
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