Shane Devane

Now

• I'm fine-tuning LLMs for EU corporate directives: Verdea
• I'm writing the second edition of: Onboarding Product
• Learning Alto Saxophone with: Scott Paddock Sax School

Next

• Decide on a Marathon for 2024 (put off until 2025)
• Decide on Spanish Lessons
• LLM prototypes with AWS Bedrock (became Verdea)

Later

• Cryptocoin experiment (too much startup stuff happening)

DONE

• Plan Alto/Tenor Saxophone Yamaha YTS-480

Goals

Yamaha Silver Tenor - Intermediate Saxophone

My original saxophone was a Jupiter Tenor student model (and a few cheap chinese saxophones). In 2022, I bought my first 'good' saxophone, the Yamaha Alto Silver YAS-280S - which was a total game changer for me. All my other saxophones I struggled with the low and high notes (which is very common with cheaper saxophones).

My goal will be for 2026 to switch back to playing tenor - and to buy an intermediate saxophone, as at that stage, it will give me the flexibility to then purchase a professional horn sometime in 2030 - and keep my intermediate saxophone as backup / practice instrument.

Athens Marathon

I was accepted into the Athens Marathon in 2023 - but due to startup commitments I pulled out of going. It would be nice to re-apply at a later stage, albeit I've heard the marathon route itself is a bit boring...

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