Summer came late this year. April and May were chilly. We had a lot of rain.

But here we are in the first week of June and summer weather has finally arrived.

I know this not just because it’s been in the high 80s all week, but because I had trouble falling asleep last night. I was too busy scratching my legs. I counted at least 10 mosquito bites. Ugh. If only we could have summer without mosquitos.

But the flip side of summer in New York is seeing new life everywhere:

• Two baby raccoons crossed the street in front of my car last night

• A baby bunny was sitting on the side of my running path this morning

• I’ve been waking up to birdsong coming in through the open window

• Flowers are abloom everywhere I look

September is a good month for getting back to hard work. January is good for setting intentions and goals.

But there’s no better time for birthing creativity into the world than summer.

I always notice I have more manic energy this time of year, an increase in desire to start new things. Maybe it’s the weather, the longer days, or all the new life all around. Does anyone else feel this rhythm during summer too?

Instead of writing about things I’ve done lately, I’m making a list of things I want to work on:

• Add features to the GM Farcaster miniapp: haptics, more onchain capabilities, and a “chat with the AI bot” experience

• Build a utility that scrapes our show notes for every cast we’ve ever mentioned and adds them to a searchable database

• Auto-generate video clips when the bot recommends an episode, so it shares a clip instead of just linking to YouTube

• Create admin tools for processing shows—transcripts, cast metadata, and selecting which episode to spotlight in the miniapp

• Publish the children’s book I’ve been working on with my sister (her hand-painted illustrations should be done in the next month or so!)

• Start writing The Joy of Coding. I’ve already collected one story from an engineer, and I’m hoping for more

Let me know if you’re feeling the summer energy too or if you’ve got a project you’re hatching this season. I’d love to hear what’s on your list.

Some of the pics

Top to bottom, left to right: S’mores, beets and herbs, a sign for a postcard show in NYC, peony bloom, chamomile bloom, hammock, cows at pasture

A Note to My Readers

I started this substack in December 2022 as an experiment to see if developing a writing habit would help clarify my thinking and/or provide other benefits. You can read about my original intentions in my first post or my more recent reflections after sticking with it for a year.

I write about twice a month and share musings, meditations, and links to things I’m finding interesting as I build out a farcaster-native media company, a modern technology consulting company, raise my kids, and have fun creating and learning in the worlds of crypto, tech, finance, science and wellness.

Thank you for supporting my writing and journey. If you’d like to get in touch you can reply to me here or find me on X and farcaster.

Until next time, keep putting good into the world. —adrienne🌏❤️