📚My Booklist for 2026:
🎧 Audiobooks
- The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross by Brian Zahnd.
- When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes by Brian Zahnd.
- Beauty will Save the World: Rediscovering the Allure and Mystery of Christianity by Brian Zahnd.
- Postcards from Babylon: The Church In American Exile by Brian Zahnd.
- Overcoming Apathy: Gospel Hope for Those Who Struggle to Care by Uche Anizor.
- A Teachable Spirit: The Virtue of Learning from Strangers, Enemies, and Absolutely Anyone by A.J. Swoboda.
- Slow Theology: Eight Practices for Resilient Faith in a Turbulent World by A.J. Swoboda.
- Practicing Christian Doctrine: An Introduction to Thinking and Living Theologically by Beth Felker Jones.
- How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley.
- Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People, and Leave Them Better Off for Having Met You by Chris Hadnagy.
- Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking by Chris Hadnagy.
- Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security by Chris Hadnagy.
📙Physical Books
- Little Brother & Homeland by Cory Doctorow
- The Brothers Karamazov: A New Translation by Michael R Katz (Trans), Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Demons by Richard Pevear (Trans), Larissa Volokhonsky (Trans), Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Slow Horses by Mick Herron
- Deep Dive: Exploring the Real-world Value of Open Source Intelligence by Rae Baker
- Practical Social Engineering: A Primer for the Ethical Hacker by Joe Gray
You can follow my reading progress, reviews and quotes over on Bookwyrm.
📖 Devotional Focus (2026):
- The Books of Jeremiah and Lamentations
🎙️The Podcasts I'm Digging:
- Late Night Linux
- Linux Matters
- Tech Against Terrorism
- The Mockingcast
- The Social Engineer Podcast
- Slow Theology
- Hacking Humans
- Homebrewed Christianity
- Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry
- Ongoing History of New Music
🎥 The Movies I've watched:
- TBA
📻 The Music I'm Grooving to:
- Grief Chapter by Mother Mother
- Automatic by the Lumineers
- American Idiot (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) by Green Day
- Supercharged by The Offspring
I'm also gearing up for The Offspring/Bad Religion concert in February.
🍎 The Stuff I'm Learning:
My ongoing goal is to do a few hours of OSINT training each week.
Interactive OSINT training through Kase Scenarios including: Sinister Obsession, SCP Insurgency, Dark Waters, Orkla: Bounty Hunt and The Vanishing of Rosie Parker
I'm also trying to teach myself lock-picking...
🏋️♂️ The Healthy Stuff I'm Doing:
- Try to track everything with my Apple Watch. 🤣
- Trying (read: struggling) to get back in the habit of eating better and getting my daily 3 km walk in. It helps that we now have a puppy that loves the outdoors!
💼 My Work Stuff:
- I recently started providing employment support for an incredible individual, who does some amazing advocacy work with the Canadian Down Syndrome Society.
✈️ The Places I'm Going:
- Trying to get a few mountain hikes in before the snow comes. You can see some of my photos from our various expeditions in this Pixelfed Album.
Some of our recent trips include:
- 2025 Camping Trip at Castle Falls PP [Photos on Pixelfed]
- Australia Trip in August 2025. [Photos on Pixelfed]
This /now page is inspired by Derek Sivers. It was last updated on December 2, 2025.