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Last Update: May, 2026

What I’m up to now…

📍 Location

Still in Paris, year 7. May has delivered a few of those perfect Parisian evenings — the kind you only get once or twice a year. Long walks home along the canals with my wife and daughter, terrace lunches, the city in its softest light. Hard to be anywhere else when Paris is like this.

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🏠 Life

🩵 The Baby™️ is 2.5 and thriving — walking everywhere on her own, opinions about everything. She joined us for a Caribbean pop-up at Comptoir Sur Mer with our friend Sutanya (Dinner For One) and her fellow cheffe, then a long stroller walk home through the Canal Saint-Martin.

🎙️ Shana finally launched Episode 02 of her podcast, three years after Episode 01, and I joined her as the guest. Felt strange being on the other side of the conversation — but a great one to record together.

🏃 🏀 ⚽️ Coming back from the late-March shin/lower leg injury — hematoma plus a small muscle tear. Mostly biking and walking while it heals. Hoping to ease back into running and Thursday-night pickup basketball before the end of May.

📚 Finished Why We Love Baseball by Joe Posnanski ⭐⭐⭐⭐ — perfect timing with the season underway, now slowly working through the YouTube playlist of every iconic moment in it. Also wrapped Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Omnibus Vol. 2 — done with the comics finally, years after the original publication. Still working through Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, picked up from our building’s shared bookshelf.

☕ Home coffee still satisfying with the dedicated scale upgrade. Setup notes live at tibz.blog/coffee.

💼 Work

Still at Itonics. Recent highlight: an unprompted customer email that went to my manager, our CEO, and our co-founder. The kind of moment that reminds me why the relationship side of this job matters more than anything else. Three years of showing up compounding into a single email.

Still using physical notebooks as grounding. More at tibz.work or LinkedIn.

🛠️ Building

Wrote about the little AI-assisted guides I’ve been building for myself — Paris, Berlin, coffee, workout, and shared cooking recipes. Each one started messy, took 2–3 rounds, ended up genuinely useful. Pinned them to my iPhone Control Center via Shortcuts for one-tap access.

The thread that surprised me: it stopped feeling like “using AI to do a task” and started feeling like thinking out loud and having something help me structure it. The knowledge was already in my head. I just needed a way to get it out.

🎮 Play

Recent recommendations:

Live shows:

Concert lineup still stacked for 2026:

Sports:

🏀 The Wizards just won the #1 pick at the NBA Draft Lottery. AJ Dybantsa is (almost certainly) coming. After years of suffering since the John Wall injuries derailed everything in 2019, finally some luck on our side. WE ARE SO BACK.

🏀 Paris Basketball: closing the regular season strong. Just beat a depleted Monaco at home — one game left to seed higher ahead of the LNB Betclic Elite playoffs. Out of Euroleague playoffs, but a back-to-back domestic championship is still very much on the table.

🏀 Also got tickets to the official NBA Playoffs viewing party at Le Grand Rex — second year in a row, 2,500 fans in the iconic 1920s movie theater, with Mickael Pietrus and rookie-of-the-year candidate Maxime Raynaud as special guests.

⚾ Baseball season is on. Go O’s!

💭 Things I’m thinking about