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February was rough. Our team shipped Apple Health support, a feature I had eagerly built two years prior at Peloton’s first hackathon.

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January rounded out with six (6) days in Guadeloupe (!). Alysha had been eyeing cheap flights (#NorwegianAir) and when she found sub-$300 round-trip tickets, we snagged ‘em. Weathering the 33 °F averages here in NY to 77 °F there and back again was rough. Yet, the trip was anything but. We carved out beach time, took two extended hikes, ate out the first few days, realized it was too expensive, and cooked the rest of the trip.

Here are a couple of my favorite photos: Alysha, when she found out wine was ~$3 USD a bottle (!) and .

Last weekend, I resurfaced an old tweet on counting books (clapping hands emojis stripped for clarity¹).

Hello from the other side of a trip to London, XOXO ‘18, two , and…a failed attempt at stepping off the gas. This entry doesn’t come with an accompanying post—I’m mustering the headspace to write long form again—instead, a reflection on an opportunity I decided to take.

My favorite sentence from the next post, “Invisible Badges,” is “time away from the practice is the practice.” It was a comment Casey made after a sit at (the now defunct) when I mentioned that my internal work seemed to be plateauing. He suggested stepping away from meditation—and doing so, in a funny way, was a sort of meditation in and of itself.

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