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Flights back to New Zealand - to visit family and sneak in a standard distance tri this Saturday - were delayed a day which meant this beauty turned up in time for long haul! @feelthebyrn1 much appreciation!

The week got done 🚴🏾‍♂️🏃🏾‍♂️ ✅ A very basic week of efforts under LT1 with the exception of 2’ of strides thrown in for variety and to remind the legs there exists a mode beyond plod. This is the basic week until Nov 4 when I sit the CFP. After that time suck is finished (don’t start me on the utility of the credential) I can… keep the doing the basic week but with more volume and 🏊🏾‍♂️ added back in. Rinse wash repeat. Also today is move in day for Ms 18! Packing the car was a threshold effort. Go Bears!

Sometimes parenting is simply getting ahead of the inevitable conflict.

Billions poured on chips Unfathomable compute Can’t fix Teams typos 🤷🏾 #AI

Easy Aerobic 🏃🏾‍♂️// power + qi-gong Warmup: 10’ easy walk Main: 45’ ~200w Cooldown: 5’ easy walk At the in-laws which can be challenging because #hills so there’s a lot of walking and jog-walking and janky-jogging to keep power respectable and actually easy. Got home in time for family qi-gong on the deck led by Sifu father-in-law.

More Lactate Submaaaaaxing 🏃🏾‍♂️ Run protocol (5’ sample / 10’ step) with a decent warmup. Extended on the backend to get enough data for LT2. Which happened and was not so much painful as it was… uncomfortable. ✅ Tests done and curves shifted (ever ever so slightly) right.

Lactate Submaaaxing 🚴🏾‍♂️ There comes a time in your life when a submax lactate test is your CFP exam study avoidance technique. Yes, yes Nov 4 is the exam date but there’s a lot to cover mkay. Same protocol: 10’ step / 5’ sample after a 20 minute warmup. Extended it beyond 2mmol to see if I could get LT2 on the curve. I could and the curve shifted to the right. By a rounding error but I’ll take it. Back to studying for things I already know in obscene amounts of detail because work is paying for the certificate.

Easy 🏃🏾‍♂️ by ⚡️ 13’ @ 175-185w 38’ @ 195 - 210w Basic green run. What was a first was the interruption 11’ before the end when Ms 20 FaceTimed me asking for laundromat troubleshooting… because the app wasn’t working. I never expected app and laundry to collide but here we were (I think it was a Bluetooth issue).

A return to X after a break no one knew about. Meanwhile, it irked me I couldn’t 🏃🏾‍♂️a structured workout by watts in Zwift because #manyreasons. So, because I’m a firm believer in learning by doing, I coded up a Mac OS desktop app that allows me to run by watts. As a Viking.

The Green Year 🏊🏾‍♂️🚴🏾‍♂️🏃🏾‍♂️💻 This weekend was a sub-max re-test to set zones for the next 8–12 weeks. Which, naturally, turned into a curiosity project. The last six months I’ve been neck-deep in process improvement and analytics tooling for our investment office (office is an over statement - I’m the CIO but also the sole member of the office). Because I can. And because agentic AI is useful without “replacing the junior analyst who left” (spoiler: true). So this weekend I built a little training dashboard (Cursor + Claude Code) to: •ingest my Strava data •check whether I’m broadly sticking to @feelthebyrn1’s 8:1 easy:hard balance •run my training through my store-brand version of @Alan_Couzens’ “Harry” to see if I’m on track, and spit out next week’s plan based on goals + progression Still tuning the coach’s personality and the progression logic, but it’s a fun ride: build, test, learn, repeat. Truth is, I’m coachless right now and I miss weekly accountability. I don’t need someone to tell me “mostly green, a tiniest bit of yellow/red, test, lift. - repeat” I need someone (or something) to stop my worst impulse: tweaking the plan to death. Also. You can swift and code. And socials.

Ms. 17: Argh. This college app wants 200 words about concepts that inspire me?! What should I write?? Me: One word - brevity. I’m just trying to add value to my child’s life in a way that makes sense to me.

The problem, @feelthebyrn1 , with having Amazon deliver while you’re traveling is that your family absolutely will not tell you your highly anticipated book has arrived. They’ll just unpack it (assuming it’s something they ordered) and discard it on the nearest flat surface like it’s a takeout menu for me to discover much later. The hell.

And it begins… the UC applications are in. Keeya is taking her first step towards being able to define the essential character of who she is as a fully actualized human being in 350 words. For the kiwis, this is the University of California system (of which the two most famous you’ll know are UC Berkeley and UCLA.) I don’t know if there are infamous UCs - maybe UC Santa Barbara where maybe Keeya has also applied to… #collegeapplicationseason

I have a Substack called Permanent Rez because this is how we do things now. Truthfully, it’s just a collection of things I’ve written over time; and if you’re math-inclined, you’ll notice the dataset is sparse. I’m far better at thinking about writing than doing the writing. But public accountability is a wonderful thing. There’s value in saying you’ll do a thing and then actually doing it. This week I wrote about my breakup with my phone. I’d call it a metaphor, but it isn’t: I’m down 42% in screen time from last week, which means I’m now using my phone a lot instead of a ton. At its heart, it’s about being present, not being beholden to the algorithm, and finding better ways to spend my attention. It also explains my lack of participation on the socials and was spurred by @inaki_delaparra and @Alan_Couzens latest discussion on recovery in which they also discuss the "delete / reinstall" doom cycle we all find ourselves in. I appreciated the humanity and I assure them I had more meaningful takeaways but this was a useful byproduct. Read it here: Thought of the Weak by @rpwiki open.substack.com/pub/perman…

Ten years ago I wished Te Maia a happy 10th birthday on Facebook and declared I couldn’t wait to reflect back on the intervening 10 years and “particularly the point where you started to love doing the dishes.” A throwaway line meant for an easy laugh. Because my humor, like my taste in men’s cologne, is cheap (Old Spice is a hill I will die on). A betting man would have wagered money because Te Maia does, in fact, love to do the dishes. Well, I don’t know if she "loves" to do the dishes but what I do know is she does the dishes. And specifically when she’s home she unloads, like clockwork every morning, the dishwasher. In a polarized world I think we can all agree that this is the worst of the kitchen jobs. The culinary equivalent of folding clothes. After all, any fool can launder. But only the best of us fold and then put away the clothes. My wish for ten-year-old Te Maia was that she would embrace the next decade of dishes with the same joie de vivre she had thrown at the first decade of her life. A callous wish to be sure, and one she exceeded: participation at the United Nations across three continents, filmmaking from the Pacific to the steps of Congress, podcasting, sitting on panels, sitting in audiences advocating to panels - the list goes on and all of the list is better than dishwashing. So my hope for the next ten years of the adventure that is Te Maia Wiki is that she settles into the true nature of her Self: a Self that leads with love and curiosity and is goofy and serious at moments opportune and inopportune. At the precipice of adulthood I encourage you, my love, to peer over the edge and then throw yourself down the other side with reckless abandon. Well planned, thoughtful, safe and risk adjusted reckless abandon. And while we’re here, let me tell you about ironing… Happy 20th birthday Te Maia.

A lot of smart minds and money went into decades of technology and innovation to give us the ability to instantly communicate with groups of people. This is how we’re utilizing human genius today.

Mx. 17 has been hard at work doing AP Econ prep, SAT study and college application prep in these final weeks of summer. Me: Hey. I just want to say I’m really impressed with your work ethic this summer. Mx. 17: Work ethic? I woke up at 11:30 today. Me: Yeah but you’re balancing a social life and… Mx. 17: Dude. Don’t sing praises yet! I woke up at 11:30! Me: YEAH BUT I’M JUST TRYING TO SAY THAT… Mx. 17: AND I’M SAYING I WOKE UP AT 11:30!! THAT’S NOT A WORK ETHIC. Me: AND I’M TRYING TO SHOW MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT! Mx. 17: LUNCHTIME!! Glad they’re in charge of everything soon.

Movement 🚶🏾 This week, I set up a walking pad in my home office (office is a stretch - it’s a corner of the downstairs family room, because actual work spaces are taken by real work-from-home wife). By midday, I logged 885 kcal over 2.75 hours of easy walking at 2.5 mph (missed 15 minutes by forgetting to start my watch). Despite a busy trading morning, walking wasn’t cumbersome; time flew, and I managed model portfolio changes easily, despite a few errant mouse clicks (we’ll see when trades settle tomorrow). An evening 75’ easy ride brought me to 1,548 kcal. The under-desk treadmill is great. Got one for my office too (it’s complicated having multiple offices across the globe but I have a few desks I call my own on a regular basis). #workbeforeworkrate