Welcome! I'm Kevin Today, a former Palantir engineer and current CTO of Kurtosis Technologies. Here you'll find links to my writing, the tools I've built, the gear I use, my favorite books, and more.

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Writing

• Orgbrain
• Personal writing

Tools I've Built

Live:

• CLI Journal, a CLI for writing and searching a repository of tagged journal entries
• Wealthdraft, a financial planning tool for tracking your assets, monitoring net worth changes over time, estimating yearly tax, calculating changes needed to rebalance your portfolio, and more
• My Bash and Vim dotfiles
• A script to download your Kindle highlights as JSON
• A tool for querying the US Treasury website to get the value of a multiple savings bonds at a time
• A Google Spreadsheet for logging my vaccinations and flagging when I'm overdue

Dead:

• Wunderpy2, Python bindings for Wunderlist (RIP)
• Smooth Mechanism, my very first attempt at automating my GTD system
• Unbox, a tool for symlinking things on your filesystem (e.g. your dotfiles) into Dropbox so they're always up-to-date
• file-vacuum, which attempted to do what sftp does before I knew sftp existed

Music Playlists

• Chillout Cafe, a playlist of almost exclusively nonvocal, groove-heavy, lofi-focused tunes that I've been building since 2014 in preparation for the cafe I plan to open one day
• Focus Time, a list of hard-driving tunes for when I'm amped up on coffee and want to get into the work zone
• Gym

Favorite Books

• Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
• Getting Things Done (2015 ed.) by David Allen
• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
• The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
• Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
• The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
• Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
• Too Perfect by Allan Mallinger and Jeannete Dewyze
• Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss
• The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson

2020-12 Gear

Everyday Carry

• Buffway minimalist wallet:
  • Chase Sapphire primary credit card
  • CapitalOne VentureOne backup credit card
  • Ally bank debit card
  • Driver's license
  • Insurance card
• Samsung Galaxy S10E in a Otterbox Commuter case with an MP-MALL glass screen protector
• Keyring:
  • Yubikey 5
  • TRUE CashStash, loaded with local currency
  • OLight I3T pocket flashflight
  • Victorinox MiniChamp Swiss army knife
• Apple Airpods Pro
• Wazoo firestarter necklace or Wazoo whetstone necklace
• Homemade paracord bracelet in quickrelease braid
• Bonobos stretch washed chinos
• Banana Republic Custom 078 Wash button downs in Grant Fit (these have lasted me years, and I'm very happy with them)
• Warfield & Grand Battery boots or Clark's Atticus Lace casual dress shoes

Mobile Office

• Everki Titan backpack (I have an older version, but I can't recommend this backpack enough)
• Bose QC-25 noise-cancelling headphones (I'm looking into a wireless pair but I'm not happy with the unreplaceable battery on the QC-35 model)
• Macbook Pro 15", 2015 model (intentionally staying away from Touchbar)
• Macbook Pro magsafe charger with extension cable
• Roost foldable laptop stand
• UPERFECT 15.6" 4K portable monitor
• 10ft braided USB-C cable to charge portable monitor
• KABCON foldable portable monitor stand
• Polarspex polarized sunglasses
• Anker PowerPort cubical power strip
• BYEASY USB-A hub
• Microsoft Sculpt ergonomic keyboard
• Aproca hard-sided storage case for Sculpt keyboard with 2 spare AAA keyboard batteries inside
• Panasonic Eneloop Pro AAA batteries
• Techkey USB wifi adapter for getting wifi when signal is weak
• Evoluent vertical mouse
• Mousepad
• Passport
• Villini leather passport & boarding pass holder
• Backup Yubikey
• Cord tacos for cable management
• Mack's earplugs for blocking noise during travel and drumming
• North American Rescue Ocho IFAK

Hermitcrab Home

I carry my "home" around with me in my suitcases

• Osprey Farpoint 55L travel backpack (everything you need and nothing you don't; highly recommend)
• Large Victorinox luggage case with roller wheels and suit storage
• Ledger Nano X for cryptocurrency storage
• Gonex Dopp kit:
  • Philips Norelco multigroom with attachments (I've used the same one for years across 6 continents with no issues; highly recommended)
  • Sensodyne extra-soft toothbrush (many people brush too hard and get gum recession and this counteracts that, though this toothbrush is becomingly increasingly hard to find and electric toothbrushes seem to do better job)
• Panasonic Eneloop Pro wall charger
• Daily Supplements:
  • Mindlab Pro nootropic (I did a good amount of research into nootropics, and this was the only one I found that had research-backed ingredients in the right active dose)
  • Vitamin D, 2000IU
  • eChlorial spirulina & chlorella (grown in glass tubes, which makes it more expensive but avoids contaminants found in open-air ponds)

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