Excited to dig into this beautiful new book from Stewart Brand. I can get enough of Stripe Press books. They’re always so lovely.
No international travel this year, which was a bummer, but I did get to spend some time in NYC, which I had not done in a while.
I love my Oura ring, but for all the focus on making it feel smarter I still get notifications about stretching my legs when I’m on planes and driving, which feels pretty dumb.
Disclosure: I’m a former employee and shareholder.
I was sad to learn that James Grauerholz passed away on January 1. While it had been some time since I spoke to James, I was lucky enough to spend some time with him and William when I was going to school in Lawrence, Kansas in the 90s. James was visiting Los Angeles not long after I had moved there and we spent some time together. He was especially supportive of me when I started my short-lived record label. He was also encouraging of my writing, which meant a lot. Farewell, James.
Speaking of RSS, I’m using it more than ever. Every newsletter I subscribe to goes into my feeds now and I made major progress unsubscribing from most newsletters that were coming into my email inbox. In 2025 I added 74 new feeds, bringing the total number of sites in Feedbin to 3,651.
The fine folks at Buttondown made a tool to combine multiple RSS feeds into a single feed. I don’t currently have a use for this, but I think it’s a neat idea.
Happy New Year.
I had not previously read Chenyang “Platy” Hsu’s blog, but their post Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts was delightful.
Finished Pluribus last night and really enjoyed it. Is it about disconnection and loneliness? AI? Vaccines? Politics? Culture? Feels like I need time to process more and maybe write about it. Definitely made me think.
Also watched one of the new episodes of Stranger Things with the daughter.
This PhotosExport tool from Rui Carmo looks really great. I just exported my Google Photos library using Takeout and am consolidating everything on an instance of Immich on PikaPods.