Weekly Update 1/5/26
Hello and welcome to my first weekly update of 2026!
Intro
Hello and welcome to my first weekly update of 2026!
One of my goals for 2026 is to write, publish and build more in public and posting a weekly update is one of the ways I plan to hold myself accountable to those goals.
I’m pulling some inspiration from one of my favorite authors, Brandon Sanderson, who posts a weekly update regularly that I end up watching mostly every week and I really enjoy.
In my weekly updates you can expect to get updates on projects I’m working on, upcoming projects, posts, etc for the coming week, a brief report on what I did last week and occasionally other updates. Should be short and sweet and the plan is for it to come out every Monday.
Expect a lot more posts from me this year.
Progress updates
As far as updates go on projects, there are 2 that I am currently working on:
Nova Music
Experimentation Labs
Nova Music is a music instructor CRM and studio management tool that I’ve been working on for my wife who teaches Piano. It started as a fun way to play with AI and vibe coding tools and has turned into something real that I’m very excited about.
It’s still currently in Alpha, but I’m excited that the core functionality of the product itself is working! There are still a few bugs to clean up and lots of feature enhancements I want to make, but it’s in a place where my wife is going to start using it in her lessons starting next week.
I expect she’ll have lots of valuable feedback that I’ll incorporate as quickly as I can.
My goal is to get Nova to some Beta users in February and to try to go to market by March.
There’s still plenty to do before we get there, but I think it’s doable.
Experimentation Labs is my Substack newsletter.
I’ve written on and off for a few years, it’s something I enjoy and a skill I want to improve, but it’s tough to be consistent, so one of my goals for 2026 is to post more often.
I’m hoping to post quite a bit more. My posts will include Weekly Updates, AI news and my takes on AI tools, breakdowns of growth strategies, go to market strategies and interesting products.
I don’t want to over commit to specific topics yet, those are still up in the air, but I plan to try several things and we’ll see what sticks with the audience and what gets me excited to study and write about.
I’m excited about this goal, I hope it will stretch me in some uncomfortable ways.
What’s coming up
This week I’m excited to write about :
How I’m using Claude Code Opus 4.5 to build Nova
How I’m using Cursor and Granola to improve my job interview performance
A difficult tech job market
Vibe code to live quick guide
Happy New Year
Here’s to a happy new year and doing our best to stick to our goals!