VI — Now
Now
Working on
Library of Matt
Designing and building the personal site. Currently in layout phase — five of seven templates done.
Safaii Studio — Pattern Library v2
Rebuilding the internal component library from scratch. Stricter naming conventions, better documentation.
Zonebrite Q2 Maintenance Rotation
Scheduled maintenance across the Culver City commercial portfolio. Eight properties, March through May.
Reading
Drawn and Quartered
Emil Cioran · 1983
The Universal One
Walter Russell · 1926
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott · 1998
Watching
Silo
Season 2 · Apple TV+
The Thin Red Line
Terrence Malick · 1998
Listening to
Lateralus
Tool · 2001
Rust in Peace
Megadeth · 1990
In the Absence of Truth
Isis · 2006
Training
StrongLifts 5x5
Week 14. Squat 225 lb · Bench 175 lb · Deadlift 275 lb
Tracking with MacroFactor
Body recomposition. Slight caloric surplus, high protein.
Thinking about
The relationship between legibility and ownership — whether making a system readable to someone else is a form of generosity or a form of control. Scott's argument in Seeing Like a State is that legibility always serves the powerful. I'm not sure that holds at the scale of a cable run.
Whether YouTube is the right venue for writing about web development and business philosophy, or whether the writing should stay here and the channel should be something else entirely.