Apple Vision Pro – Quick Take

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I recently got an Apple Vision Pro from work since we are currently doing some POC’s and innovation using the device. Overall, I am really impressed with the device. The eye tracking is definitively amazing and accurate, the experience is polished and the content is impressive. The “Guest” experience is solid (being able to turn it on, and pas the device to some else and get it setup).

There are a couple downsides, the weight is unbearable – I did a 30 minute fit at the Apple Store, and none of the cushions felt great for my narrow face. The other smaller downside, the app ecosystem just has not evolved sufficiently yet. The Apple Immersive Experiences are excellent, the Djay app is seriously awesome, but beyond that, we need to gain a bit more adoption before more killer consumer experiences emerge. read more

2024 Race: Boone Gran Fondo

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Year 2 of doing the Suarez Gran Fondo National Race in Boone. In 2023 I was prepping for IM WC in Nice, so I decided to use this race as some climbing prep and pretty much treated it like a 100 mile ride on my TT bike, versus a gran fondo of racing the timed segments. This year, I used my gravel bike, put on my TT bike wheels and raced it a little more traditionally. Overall, it such a beautiful Course (lots of it is on the Blueridge Parkway) and some fun climbing in the NC mountains.

Race wise it went reasonably well with 10th in my category.

Pyrite

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I was convinced an easy way to spot something unnatural, in a natural earth like setting was to simply look for straight lines and perfectly right angles …. until I came across Pyrite.

I will need to find a new way to convince myself that humans are alien.

Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian …

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Finally making the move of my “2nd brain” (notes) out of Evernote and into Obsidian … I think I will miss a few features of Evernote such as the rich editor, nice formatting of tables and the polished Desktop, Web and Mobile apps, but I am over the high expense and glad to be hosting/owning/having control over my own data.

Obsidian looks very promising at the moment, a couple of work colleagues swear by it and just by the quality and sheer number of great community plugins alone has made it worth switching. Time will tell 🙂 During this move I have also modified my note collection structure, migrating to a partial implementation of Johnny.Decimal where it makes sense. Below is a screenshot of my current folder structure. I hope I can maintain this … but also know these systems require time to evolve and adapt. read more