OOutside the work that pays for the laptop, I keep a short list of curiosities. French is the active project — intermediate now, with Arabic queued for after it sticks. The point isn’t fluency for its own sake; learning a language is the cleanest way I’ve found to stay close to what it feels like to be a beginner, which is useful for anyone running developer programs.

I also stay hands-on with Web3 frontend work — building small things, contributing to open source when I can, watching what new patterns make DApp interfaces less hostile to first-time users. The best way I know to keep ops decisions grounded is to still ship code occasionally myself.

Films and good storytelling — how a narrative is structured, where it withholds, when it reveals — pull me in for the craft as much as the content. That attention bleeds into how I design programs and frame community work; both are exercises in narrative arc.

AI and cloud infrastructure are the next things on the bench. Less because they’re trending, more because they’re the layers under whatever the next versions of developer education and financial access actually look like. I’d rather be early enough to build than late enough to have to catch up.