🌿 Now

I try to keep up with reading. I’m trying to improve my routine.

Moving out of Paris #

I moved to the Fontainebleau area in June 2020, after spending 2 months in my small Paris flat with a 4-year-old and a newborn.

The forest is a 2-min walk away. I now have the time and headspace to watch the seasons pass and my children grow.

New hobbies #

I tore my Achilles tendon playing tennis in Feburary, so I am quite limited in terms of physical activites at the moment.

I also started playing Chess. Last time I played seriously enough to open books I was still a child, so the game is reactivating neuronal pathways (in a metaphorical sense) that hadn’t been used in a long time. It is strange yet interesting to be able to compare your thought process to that of your 10-something years old self.

New habits #

• Mostly replaced coffee with tea. I still drink a cup a coffee first thing in the morning, tea does not give me the kickstart I need;
• 1h walk or tennis first thing in the morning;
• 1h writing every morning. It’s the single most important thing for my sanity;
• I started tending to my notes and digital garden more seriously. Focused on tying loose ends.

Intellectual wanderings #

• I keep coming back to macroeconomics
• I enjoy modeling pretty much anything
• I am reading more and more history