2026-06-02

Intermission: Cisco Live, off the NVIDIA prep track

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A learning-in-public log is more useful when it tells the truth about which days had work in it and which days did not. Today and tomorrow are two days that did not.

I am at Cisco Live this week presenting on network-automation topics that were committed to long before the NVIDIA Physical AI ramp started. The presentations are the day job, the prep is the side project, and when the two collide the day job wins by default. That is the right call but it does leave a gap in this journal, and the right way to handle the gap is to mark it as a gap rather than pretend it did not happen.

Back to the OpenUSD work on Thursday. The cruise scan, the USD Python session, and the second hotel scan all sit on top of each other as continuous learning. The two-day pause does not undo any of that, but it does push the composition-arc work and the Isaac Sim exposure into the back half of this week instead of the front half. The timeline is the timeline.

If you are reading this looking for actual OpenUSD content, the Day 1 cruise scan entry and the Day 2 USD Python entry are where the work is. The next real entry lands Thursday.