Month of Feb 2026
Skiing and EthDenver
//Yay Paradise hotel outdoor hot tub
Theme of the Month - Skiing and EthDenver
The questions/thoughts that led me to the posts for Feb 2026 were:
What adulting skills should you learn? This is also what I want to teach Evie.
How was flying with a toddler during COVID moving to Denver?
How was your 2 days in Seoul with an awesome tour?
How was your 4 days in Busan with Korean wedding?
What will happen if the white and blue collar flips in a Great AI Inversion?
What advice would you give to a beginner poker player?
OpenClaw broke me. For those who have been living on a rock or just skipped this cycle, you’ve missed seeing the architecture do a huge jump. Some core infrastructure:
Whatsapp/Telegram/Discord - place to message your clawdbot
Control UI - Browser dashboard of your bot on localhost
Heartbeat - CRON-like scheduler that runs 30 min for automations
File system reads SOUL.md, MEMORY.md, memory/YYY-MM-DD.md with autogenerated dail logs, AGENTS.md, TOOLS.md
Skills/ - installable capabilities from ClawdHub
The memory system here really does compound because it will start to know your schedule. This is about personalization and peaks into the joy of the TRAIN phase of the internet. There’s so much more customization that’s interesting (and probably dangerous to be on the bleeding edge).
I feel like the agentic side of things are just moving so much faster and we’re at least headed towards a developer’s world of singularity. There will still be a catch-up for all devs to build this way and trust the tools, but it seems like there’s a definite trend in the solo entrepreneurs taking advantage of the opportunity to bootstrap ideas.
It brings me a general malaise of anxiety. It’s hard to believe it’s all because of a few well-timed articles from my phone that there’s a chance aliens exist and we’re on the brink of some digital space no longer dominated by human feedback. It’s probably all just media manipulation because my day-to-day doesn’t seem all that different.
This piece also did a doozy:
The scenario seems pretty plausible mini short term from some ripple effects, but it also doesn’t look long term enough for 10+ year impact. I’d totally love to read the rest of this book. It reminds me of this post I wrote about the AGI playbook:
30 Steps in the AGI Playbook
Random Observation/Comment #872: It's not that nobody is a programmer. It's that everyone can be a programmer.
First an infiltration in the foundation of how we work, then a dependency of our usage of AI, then a soft takeover with deeper adoption, and eventually we are controlled with consent.
What matters most in the interim of being lost in our own Matrix of the making, is health, happiness and connections. We can adapt to the different conditions of adjusted jobs and still make people feel better by being kind and generous.
The blogposts I published this month were:
I think adulting is so hard. It was so much easier when my parents just took care of everything. I hope my daughter learns all these adulting things at some point. I should read her this blog post.
This turns out to be pretty good advice for going on a plane with a toddler even without COVID.
![[Travel Advice] 2 Days in Seoul, South Korea](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zUYM!,w_140,h_140,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8603fcc-c247-433d-b6d9-c48df26cf2d0_4000x1848.jpeg)
Seoul was short, but filled with a lot of culture. I wish it wasn’t so freezing, but we still walked around and wore some Long Johns to keep warm.
![[Travel Advice] 4 Days in Busan, South Korea](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xlFB!,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%2F95572e4c-8242-4fa7-8026-54436e640ccd_4000x1848.jpeg)
Busan was a bit longer and I really didn’t have any agenda (except to relax and try some restaurants).
The latest automated AI assistant features are really getting surreal. I think the multi-threaded agents orchestration set of tooling is going to move adoption even further with so many layoffs and move towards the downturn.
Poker is a new favorite local Dad hobby. We have some regulars. This was more of a random thinking exercise as I wrote one for Disc Golf.
Some ideas for Mar 2026?
30 Basement Reno Lessons Learned - This was a multi-year project so I’m glad we finally finished it. There were some big things we learned and little upgrade purchases that made the overall feel less generic and more badass. I’ve enjoyed rewatching some cinematic beauties.
30 Car Buying Lessons (from 2020) - An oldie, but goodie post about buying our Subaru from 2020.
30 Vibe coding experiments - With AI doing all the digital things, here are the 30 rabbit hole questions and results I’ve gotten just querying Clembot a bit deeper.
Lists of 30 App - This was a fun vibe coded app that I can probably reveal and collaborate with this Substack.
Life in Lists of 30 Audiobooks - Started recording this for fun now that the basement is completed. Might as well add videos. Work hard and play hard.
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 350+ lists of 30 and only publish ones that I think other people would enjoy. It’s my fun brainstorming routine.
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