Month of Feb 2025
Disneyland and ETHDenver
//Disneyland California Adventure early morning explorations
Theme of the Month - Disneyland and ETHDenver
The questions/thoughts that led me to the posts for Feb 2025 were:
What decisions do you make throughout your life that drastically change?
What does Evie eat?
How was the Disney Cruise in Feb 2023?
How was Disneyland this month?
What food do you want to teach Evie to cook?
We’ve survived Disneyland! I need a vacation from this vacation after all the planning and staying up late to hit more rides. Lovely memories. Highly recommended if you’re like me and overwhelmed with Disney World.
On a separate note, I’ve continued my journey of integrating AI into my everyday life and considering my real added value to society. How does this all pan out in a post-AI world? As a general focus, I’ve:
Reduced time with “ladder climbing” ambition in my day-to-day work,
Expanded applied AI work with new tools and processes,
Increased family time (5 years before the tween rages out on me)
Building better habits (staying healthy and building healthy long term relationships with non-alcoholic activities), and
Increased hobbies that build new skills (trying hard things and getting better at them).
With that mindset, I trust myself that I’ll keep staying curious and building things with the new tools available instead of getting caught in a mindless cycle of consumption. If I watched all of Severance, what did I do with this knowledge and love of storytelling? Is it just the few fun diary drawings? A random inside joke with my wife?
Perhaps this is a longer list of 30 post. I want to consider the time expended consuming content and then have an equal activity that builds a creative representation of these accumulated experiences.
The blogposts I’ve published this month were:
This was a fun one to write and reflect on. Our lives are a sum of these decisions. Hopefully Evie reads this at some points and sees how she can think more deeply about these huge decisions.
I’m trying my best to get Evie to try new things. Some of this is on me for cooking for picky eaters in the family. I just wish she liked sauce and spice more.
![[Travel Advice] Disney Cruise](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/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%2Fd6eac747-a1f9-4ac8-868d-410aaafc8aec_740x333.jpeg)
I’m not a big cruise guy, but this was just the right age for Evie (5yo) and collaborated across 6 neighborhood families as a post-COVID trip. The Disney princesses meet and greets with 5th floor drop off made this more of a parent trip.
![[Travel Advice] Disneyland and DCA](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/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%2F0d4e0ba5-dbfe-41c3-8e04-a3105150a449_4000x1848.jpeg)
I’m a big fan of doing research and obsessing over planning things. This was more work than actual work. With Disneyland under my belt, I feel like I can tackle Disney World in the next few years.
Cooking with Evie is a great 5-6PM activity. I want her to cook safely and feel confident in her new skills.
Some ideas for Mar 2025?
30 Hooks to Message Friends - What messages do you send your friends to stay in touch?
30 More AI Buzzwords - Latest buzzwords from reading some different research papers and looking at headlines.
30 New AI Careers - Rethinking our post-labor economic jobs. Let’s all switch to the gig economy.
Reflecting on 10 years of writing lists of 30 - I still love writing lists of 30! It’ll define my whole life.
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.
30 Ways to Stretch Time - Wealth doesn’t mean money, but time. It’s our only limited resource.
30 Things I do for Self Care - We all need to figure out what restores our energy and keeps us sane.
Kicking off “Her Life in Lists of 30” - I think I have enough material from my monthly lists of 30s to cover this and launch it in 2024. Maybe I’ll find a publisher for this book? I think I’ll be happy with more substack subscribers than a single book defining a decade. If it’s popular, maybe I’ll do a book tour!
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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