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What I'm up to at the moment as inspired by Derek Sivers' [NowNowNow](https://nownownow.com/about) project:


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#### October 2023

- My company won [Emerging Tech Company of the year](https://thebusinessmagazine.co.uk/business_events/south-coast-tech-awards-2023/) at the South Coast Tech Awards.

#### September 2023

- After meeting a whole bunch of cool people, I decided to retire turbopilot. I wrote about that decision [here](https://brainsteam.co.uk/posts/2023/09/30/turbopilot-obit/).
- [My company won Best AI Product](https://filament.ai/2023/09/06/cogx-award-2023/) at CogX 2023

#### May 2023

- We [moved offices](https://brainsteam.co.uk/posts/2023/08/28/we-moved-offices1693231919/) from Southampton University Science Park to Whiteley Business park.

### April 2023

- It's been a busy few months. We landed some funding at work which has allowed us to grow the company and hire a number of new team members.
- I started [turbopilot](https://github.com/ravenscroftj/turbopilot), a local runtime that allows you to run near "state-of-the-art" code completion models locally without racks of expensive GPUs.

#### October 2022

- After 7 years I have [finished my PhD thesis](https://brainsteam.co.uk/2022/09/25/phinished/) and [submitted it](https://brainsteam.co.uk/notes/2022/09/09/1662742877/). My PHD has been a huge part of my life and identity and it's been weird adapting to not working on it during every free moment any more.
- I'm still living in the South of England with my wife and our cats. We're spending a lot of time on house maintenance type activities now that my PHD is done.
- I am still CTO at [Filament AI](https://www.filament.ai/) - exciting things are afoot in our product development areas - hopefully I can share more publicly in the near future.