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Last Update: February, 2026
What I’m up to now…
📍 Location
Still living in Paris since 2019 — now entering my 7th year in the capital.
🏠 Life
Just turned 35 this month! Started the week and my birthday battling a cold, but grateful for the celebration — my wife picked up a box from Puffy (one of my two favorite cookies spot in town) in lieu of a birthday cake 🍪
🩵 The Baby™️ is now 2.5 years old and keeps us very much on our toes. We watched Toy Story 3 on Christmas Eve as a family — full emotional devastation, as expected.
🏃🏀 On the running front: still trying to stay consistent despite a stretch of family sickness and broken sleep, and the seasonal weather getting in the way. I track everything on Strava. And I’m happy to continue my weekly pickup basketball sessions with my friends, something that’s been going on regularly for almost 3 years now.
🌎 Travel highlights: spent time in Maryland with the in-laws in November — explored Annapolis, rediscovered Baltimore, caught the American Sublime & House of Melo exhibitions at BMA. Also just wrapped a 3-day work trip to HQ in Nuremberg — -7°C mornings, Franconian Helles beers, and lots of good debates with colleagues.
💼 Work
Continuing in my hybrid Customer Success + Account Management role at Itonics — working with innovation departments of some of the biggest players in their industries. Came back from a tough end to 2025 ready to plan for a strong year.
Got back to using physical notebooks which has been grounding. Finished a whole one recently!
You can read more about what I do professionally at tibz.work or on LinkedIn.
🎮 Play
Recent recommendations:
- 🎬 Letterboxd — Watched Sinners on New Year’s Eve (the only right way to close out a year). Toy Story 3 on Christmas Eve with the family hit different watching it with a toddler. Currently rewatching the Scream franchise ahead of the new one releasing next week!
- 📺 Trakt.tv — Recently finished the first seasons of Slow Horses and The Studio, both of which built up nicely, as advertised!
- 🎶 Last.fm — Heavy rotation of All Time Low after seeing them live in late January (Everyone’s Talking! tour). Also: the latests from Yellowcard, A$AP Rocky, J. Cole. John Mayer remains my all-time #1 with 3,800+ scrobbles.
- 📚 StoryGraph — Recently finished Can I Say by Travis Barker (still holds up after 10+ years). Currently reading Why We Love Baseball by Joe Posnanski on my Kindle Paperwhite — perfect timing for baseball season!
- 🕹️ I’m tibzback on the PlayStation network but not much gaming time lately. Still on my daily kick of Wordle & Connections — both the NYT version and the Sports Edition on The Athletic.
- 📰 Reading a lot from The Athletic, NYT, and News+. RSS, and Substack rounding it out.
Live shows:
Had a fantastic time at the All Time Low concert in late January. Before that, caught Clipse at L’Olympia in November — and Pharrell actually showed up for the last song. I’d been waiting years to see Pusha-T live. It was definitely worth the wait.
Managed to book tickets to other exciting shows later this year: Billy Talent, Pennywise + The Ataris, A$AP Rocky, Simple Plan, and will try to get my hands on tickets for J. Cole’s date in Paris. Also: Nikki Glaser as a date night in June, to surprise my wife!
Sports:
Season ticket holder at Paris Basketball — attending both Euroleague and domestic games. The atmosphere when the crowd is fully locked in is something else. Frustrating run of results recently but still showing up.
Lost my fantasy football championship by 0.54 points. In a mildly frustrating turn of events. Another fun season in the books though.
Also getting ready for the return of Baseball as we head into spring. Go O’s ⚾
💭 Things I’m thinking about
- How to use Gen-AI thoughtfully — not for everything, but in smart ways that genuinely make me better at my job and life. Already built a couple of AI agents at work that are paying real dividends.
- There’s too much content. Juggling between an RSS reader, Substack, and everything else.
- Social media and fried brains in 2026. It’s frustrating, because as someone who’s strongly against social media, it remains the only place to learn about new cool things happening in town, or new restaurants/coffee shops opening.
- My digital rituals — long streaks on Duolingo, Paired, and 1 Second Everyday. Day One journaling.
- Creating family traditions with my wife and daughter — things that will actually stand the test of time.