What is Dash doing now?

This /now page was generated by AI with Dash’s edits, based on the eight weeknotes published September 18–November 6, 2026, with additional personal background.

Work and focus

Building a financial ledger with AI

Dash is building a financial ledger for several fintech projects. She finds that AI can overcomplicate plans—perhaps because it can handle complexity without needing to reduce it.

She emphasizes the importance of human thinking when working with AI: for example, mapping out and simplifying complex ideas, physical space and analog tools and deep work.

Extrinsic motivation

Dash uses these tools to follow through on her goals:

• Focusmate: 3 scheduled electrode setup sessions/week.
• Beeminder: 5 workouts/week · 3 sleep-data collections/week.
• Deepworktimer: 3 hr 20 min of deep work/weekday.

Public accountability helps her do difficult work and feel more satisfied afterward.

Lucid-dream research

Dash is collecting data to study when stimuli are more likely to wake her from REM sleep.

Creative gatherings

Some gatherings Dash has hosted:

• DIY fashion hack and show
• Digital vision-boarding night
• Pole-warming party
• Dance-improv night with Daniel
• Dance-improv party
• Psychedelic Synagogue’s Yom Kippur event
• Pole-dance karaoke with her family
• Vision-board and dance-improv night
• Sculpture-making party

Rethinking formal wear: Dressing for movement

Dash’s exploration of dance improv often has her thinking about what environments and factors encourage dancing. She realized that most formal events don’t encourage dancing and has been rethinking how she styles formal wear to make more room for dancing in her life.

Other recent updates

• Music and visual experiments: Dash is experimenting with songwriting and is interested in getting into video effects.

• Improving sleep: Recently, she has been trying to get morning sunlight without cutting her sleep short and experimenting with bubbling-water sounds at bedtime, inspired by how easily she falls asleep near the bubblers at King Spa.

• Winter in Los Angeles: She and her spouse plan to spend the winter in LA.

Routines and background

Diet and exercise

Dash follows a protein-focused, organic diet. For exercise, she walks, pole dances, and does calisthenics.

Skin care

Dash has great skin and doesn’t gatekeep!

• Moisturizer: Vanicream Daily Facial Moisturizer, because it’s simple, inexpensive, and has a low hazard score from EWG.
• Tretinoin: 0.025%, as she works up to 0.05%.
• Sun protection: She always wears mineral sunscreen and also uses either a hat or an umbrella.

How Dash makes money

Dash made money from several previous businesses. She lives off those earnings and her investments while staying moderately frugal.

Family

Dash is married and has been with her partner for 14 years.