Got a white elephant gift last Christmas: the People of Walmart Adult Coloring Book. Been working through it ever since.

Sure, it's offensive. I'm one of those people who shop at Walmart. I go for the merchandise and the ambience. It's an adventure.

So: colouring, while being mindful of what dignity means.

Early 2023, I stood up in front of a big tech audience and described a market where a broker bot negotiates with an underwriter bot, and a human underwriter works across both. We called them bots. Nobody said agents yet.

Three years on, the bots are real and the vocabulary has moved on. The hard part is still the human in the middle.

So many terminals. So many models building, thinking, breaking. By the end of the day I needed a way to calm my mind down.

The Murder Mystery Club Puzzle Book consumed my evenings, and calmed me enough to turn my brain off without tech.

Turns out I'm good at logic puzzles. Of course I'm good at those. Not sure why I was surprised.