*cracks knuckles* i am really excited for the year ahead

valence says hello

The Dude is in play

75 minutes until Dude With A Trailer. My task list runneth over but, man, i’ll be ecstatic when this one is done.

this is the best reframe i’ve ever seen about calling your politicians

at long last The Pile in the back yard has been moved to The Larger Pile in the front yard! tomorrow? a Dude With A Trailer is coming to take all that junk and dispose of it. ✅ off the new year home bucket list

taking a break from anxiously scrolling to do yard work

Hi! The urge to doomscroll is understandable, but maybe it's worth setting a timer or logging off? Have you had something to eat yet or a big glass of water? Is there something you need to do before the end of the work day? I know how hard it can be to try and focus right now. One thing at a time

I need to tell y’all about the power of asking yourself “What would the person I want to be do right now?” when you want to give in to the heaviness

If you still post on X, the site for Nazis and pedophiles, I am absolutely judging you.

"em dashes are AI" i didn't memorize alt+0151 and option+shift+hyphen to be accused of such treachery

this poem is in my head every moment of every day now

“npm install our dependencies. Download this 5GB file onto your ancient laptop. Build and start the containe—” You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

Did a little personal internal inventory to see how I'm going to generate the energy and motivation to do the work I need to do this year, and yup, it's going to have to be spite. Let's go spite.

Seems like my poetry write-in campaign worked!

I was on @oneknightinproduct.com's podcast last week, talking about user research in the age of AI. If you like to curl up with popcorn and watch podcasts, here you go! (But it's also on podcast apps) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f5Z...

After one year I can share that these are excellent resolutions. I will report back at the start of 2027.

I don't make resolutions, ever since I discovered the two perfect ones years ago: 1. Become a more terrifying version of yourself. 2. Do what you already do, but more so.

I'm listening to a lot of end-of-year wrapup stuff from artists I support and it's striking how much rollback there is - the favorite/best stuff of 2025 they are talking about is like... rediscovering radio. Getting DVDs from the library to avoid bullshit streaming licensing issues. Indie games.

Happy Chinese-and-a-movie eve

It is 78 degrees. My neighbor is mowing the lawn. Jess is tending the garden. I have the garage door open and I’m breaking down boxes for recycling. It is two days until Christmas and we are dismantling the global warming tracking infrastructure. Everything is fine.

pro tip - an unsleeved 100 card commander deck (magic the gathering) is very easy to shuffle! and it puts your opponents on tilt to see you ruffle shuffle OG dual lands #gore #mtggore

i got bit by a dog last night. visited urgent care, got antibiotics, cleaned the wound, tending to it for a bit. the dog? it launched a dropshipping + SEO shopify store and is clearing $5k/day. 🐕 🚀

One Bite Transferred The World's #1 Shopify SEO Secret — What This Dog Knows About Shopify 99% Of Store Owners Don’t

channeling my inner @alexhillman.com ✨ JFDI? JFDI.

drone shots look like shit. so does 4k/120hz video. a shaky, brief helicopter shot in an old movie or tv show still looks cool. the human brain does not like the crispness or smoothness of computers and robots. my guess is that we evolved this instinct during the Computer War of 25,000 BCE

Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that

God grant me the serotonin to accept the things I cannot change; dopamine to change the things I can; and wisdom to know where to get each after-market

CUT TO your humble hero, kai davis, frantically rewiring a spacecraft's engine while being pulled into a hostile gravity well the air is full of oil, dust, and floating parts in the distance, you hear the sound of a wrench banging against metal suddenly, a spark flairs in the engine

Week 2 of trying to use Apple Music instead of Spotify :( It's like staying in an AirBnB where they've made the weirdest functionality decisions and you keep running into the furniture while trying to PAUSE THE GODDAMN MUSIC

as a surveillance drone flies overhead and an e-bike rides past, i remember three phrases - the future is now - the future is cyberpunk - the future is unevenly distributed

God grant me the serotonin to accept the things I cannot change; dopamine to change the things I can; and wisdom to know where to get each after-market

It feels super goofy to still have to do chores, pay bills and send emails while <gestures at everything> is destroying my ability to focus and makes my job feel meaningless. But I always feel better after eating a high-protein meal, cleaning my home, and doing my laundry instead of doomscrolling.

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

The girls with emo hair that said "Rawr XD" on Myspace are business managers now

every word of "3030" by deltron 3030 has come true

Today's #artstream on #Twitch starts in about an hour! 10am (UTC -5 CDT)

delayed due to tidying and chores. tomorrow i catchup on ketchup.

gonna make a half gallon of kai-friendly no-tomato ketchup today. first up? putting a few pounds of sliced red onions, green onions, ginger, and garlic on the griddle to ✨ aromatize ✨ the neighborhood.

1) magic the gathering (trading, collection building, deck building, limited theory, misprints, collecting…) 2) internet marketing 3) cooking and eating to manage psoriasis

I love using Notion. But the amount of in-app thirst for me to try their AI features is just exhausting. No, I don't want yet another app to auto-record my meetings and use AI to auto-assign tasks 🥱. Just let me type text and blocks. Fade into background like a Good App should.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but go take the wash out and put it in the dryer. Hope this helps someone (in addition to me).

This is stuck in my head - in a good way. I’ve got a half dozen trans friends. They are some of the best people I know. All of my friends are queer. *All* of them. I’m a cis het-passing guy. I am as queer as a $3 bisexual bill. Know what I love about my queer and trans friends? Everything.

I just hung out with three of them today

Trans rights are human rights. I love my trans friends.

I will always stand with the entire LGBTQA+ community, and now our trans siblings need our help and support the most.

It’s really so easy to say “I don’t eulogize racists” and move on.

Going to spend some time this weekend gazing into a pond or something and asking myself some frank questions about how I want to spend my life’s finite store of attention