What I’m doing right now.
Most of May is going into the castle. I’m prototyping more than one hundred offline-first interaction experiences for the Zamek Czocha retreat in October — small rituals, conversation formats, room-scale games, civic-theatre exercises, dinner-table mechanics. Things that work without screens, without wi-fi, and without a facilitator standing at the front of the room. Each prototype gets a one-page brief, a materials list, and a post-run log. The goal: ship eighty people through a weekend where every hour has a designed surface.
I am running them in Arad first — small groups, friends, the local civic-theatre circle — and keeping only the ones that work twice. Half the eighty seats for October are taken.
Most engineering hours this month are going into DomainScope. We’re past 9 million domains and the taxonomy is undergoing its first major schema migration in eighteen months — mostly to absorb three new market verticals customers asked for. Boring, slow, high-leverage.
Active threads
- WeMeshUp · Zamek Czocha retreat — 100+ offline-first interaction prototypes in development. Invitations going out weekly. Half-booked.
- DomainScope — schema v4, customer onboarding for two new tenants.
- ServerClaw — ADR-441 through ADR-445 in flight; mostly the WireGuard mesh consolidation.
- ADR Masterclass Cohort 4 — starts 8 June. Roster being filled now.
- MrData YouTube — drafting two OSINT explainers, both about TLD-level data.
Reading
- Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors — the source canon for half the castle prototypes.
- The Portavoce press kit, eight years later.
- Whatever academic papers cite the book in 2025; the citation graph is the syllabus.
Not doing
I am explicitly not taking new consulting engagements in May. The next discovery-call window opens 1 June — pick a slot on Cal.com. Press inquiries route through /press as normal.
This is a /now page, in the tradition started by Derek Sivers. It’s updated monthly, by hand. There is no RSS yet — I’m the only reader who needs one and I check this page when I get back from the airport.