2026 hit the ground running, so I didnt get to push this post out at the beginning of the year like I wanted to. But here is a little reflection post from m 2025.

Through the year I built and added a bunch of features to an API that helps me track different metrics in my life. Like I published 31 posts here, listened to 9,345 songs, watched 179 movies, read 53 books for 17,463 pages. But more things like my sleep averages, steps and more. The reasoning for this was to gauge how my year is spent, whats giving me energy and whats taking it away. Its been insightful to think about my days this way.

Noteworthy Posts

• Less Meetings, More Meaning: Protecting Focus Time

• Pause and Silence: Learning to Be Present Again

• Scope Tiny, Ship Anyway

• The AI We Were Promised

• The Quiet Side of Leadership: Listening, Observing, Deciding

• If It’s Worth Communicating, Do It Twice

• Making Feedback Land

• The Dopamine of Done

• Two Sentences a Day

Best Books I Read

• 107 Days by Kamala Harris

• FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven

• The Emergency by Thomas Fisher

• Dead Wake by Erik Larson

• Fahrenheit-182 by Mark Hoppus

• The Hospital by Brian Alexander

• Superagency by Greg Beato & Reid Hoffman

• Product Driven by Matt Watson

• Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

• Beyond Words by Carl Safina

• Unvarnished by Eric Alperin

• Rock Star by Jennifer Jones

Reflection on 2025

• We got a puppy this year and he has taught us so much about patience and grace to ourselves. He has been such a joy to see learn and grow this year.

• Like many in 2025, I kept informed on the AI trends, watching carefully how things unfolded and how it could be reasonably used in daily work and life. To be honest, I remain skeptical that its the silver bullet people are claiming - im sure I’ll be writing more about it in 2026.