Month of Aug 2025
Grandparent visits and Steamboat Springs
//ChatGPT roasted me by saying I’ll look like this in 10 years. Probably accurate.
Theme of the Month - Grandparent visits and Steamboat Springs
The questions/thoughts that led me to the posts for Aug 2025 were:
What decisions should I outsource to AI?
What careers will be born from the AI boom?
How was Maui with family back in 2022?
What human experiences will robots never understand?
How was Steamboat Springs with family?
What are some life experiments to conduct? (This was along the same lines of what decisions I should outsource)
I love it when my parents visit. We have more dinners together as a family and I can return the favor by taking care of them with some meals. This visit, we talked about what my parents wanted to teach my brother and I while growing up and how that would change based on the different technologies and change of the world for the next generation.
It was a good anchor discussion point as it put less pressure on me as a parent to please the grandparent way of teaching. I can’t really say “things are different and I don’t want to scar her like you scarred us by pushing high expectations.” But I can’t really argue with the fact that I did turn out pretty good as a brainwashed highly functioning contributor to society.
I think they were right in learning to do hard things early so we can do easy things later. We just forget that the pursuit of excellence doesn’t stop at retirement or reaching goals. Also, the pursuit of excellence is exhausting. Sometimes I wonder why I am the way I am with my neurodivergent activities, but I guess it would be weird if I didn’t take a photo of every meal, try new tech, randomly take copious notes on things, and try to figure out how to design game mechanics better. This is just who I am and I think I’m comfortable with it.
The blogposts I’ve published this month were:
What decisions do I make? Are they the right one? Is this anxiety? Can I offload the blame to AI? Should I just become a cat and have AI tell me what to do?
AI Boom has already begun. Now is the opportunity to just work hard and build lasting projects. Find your passion and feel enabled to build with a strong community.
![[Travel Advice] Maui, Hawaii](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iPVX!,w_140,h_140,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F614fe9c9-7083-4a68-80d2-c110070eaecb_740x333.jpeg)
Maui is one of those vacation places that has its own beachy charm. What’s not to like? I should probably go disc golfing here.
Humans are flawed and know just enough to get us into trouble. We’re all just floating around trying to make sense of what we’re doing in this petri dish. Anyway, robots will take over and we’ll still be pretty oblivious, but with shinier and smarter toys.
![[Travel Advice] Steamboat Springs with Family](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ecKn!,w_140,h_140,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96ea09c0-46ef-4f90-bb06-38c3f62252be_4000x1848.jpeg)
Steamboat Springs has all the vibes. Perfect long weekend vacation with a lot of strolling and eating.
Life is a series of experiments. I intend to follow a path of constant improvement and neurodivergent random activity. It was cool seeing how the mindful time would just be a difference of an hour.
Some ideas for Sept 2025?
30 Micro-habits to reduce screen time - We all want to use our phones less, right? It’s not just me that sees all of these addictions as a terrible crutch to distract us from the reality of meaningless-ness? A bit too real of a writing exercise.
30 Things My Immigrant Parents taught me - Make money and then solve for existential dread.
30 Tech that took its time - AI may be following a curve of adoption resistance similar to the niche tech like 3d printing and smart home automation.
30 Future Decade Goals - We split the next 30 years into goals per decade as mapped out by Evie’s age. This was a great activity in long term planning for her ages 6-16, 16-26, and 26-36.
Lists of 30 App - I want to build something different to house my lists of 30. I have plenty to fill a book, so why not fill an app? Why not fill a Clembot that can live in this app and help others with this writing journey? It’s all vibes.
Thank you for reading and I hope everyone stays safe! See y’all in the new year!
Please suggest a list of 30 and I’ll write it! I’ve written 300+ lists of 30 and only publish ones that I think other people would enjoy. It’s my fun brainstorming routine.
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