Month of Mar 2026
Health and Recovery
//Just doing some drawings
Theme of the Month - Health and Recovery
The questions/thoughts that led me to the posts for Mar 2026 were:
What lessons did you learn from buying a new car (during COVID)? (Aug 2020)
How did the basement turn out?
How was Hong Kong back in 2015?
Who are 30 important contacts you should have?
What are your favorite Chuck Norris facts?
So we’re at war. I predicted this last year that both the economy and the media needs distractions to cover a lot of broken spirals:
Wealth gap - Rich are getting richer using AI tooling and crazy valuations. People in the lower class struggle to do better this generation. Houses too expensive. Mortgages too high.
Debt Ceiling - We’ve printed so much more money in the past year than we did in the previous decade. It’s insane. Cracks are showing in the bond market. It’s not looking good. Once interest rates drop to 0, we’re going to see a cascading crater.
AI job displacement - If you’ve lost your job, you’re definitely exploring how to use AI tools even closer (because maybe you can automate your work and get hired somewhere else).
Change in Hiring and Company Structure - As of right now, the associates are finding it harder to get jobs when the work being replaced is “assistant” level tasks. What will be crazy in the next few years is that the AI systems in place will be good enough to be self managed so the more senior people will start to lose jobs and the younger candidates will increase as they show more native resiliency and comfort in the uncertainty of job security. The wage for white collar jobs will decrease. SaaS subscriptions will get replaced with AI tooling ones.
Gambling - Whether you’re predicting popular sports or you’re degen in Polymarket, this is a new full-time job for your AI bots. The financial layer will be scalped with bots and we’ll see a much more liquid set of markets. To be honest, derivatives are definitely propping up the up-only market.
Future of Work - What do we even do? Is our job just commanding agents around to complete workflows? I haven’t written a line of code in months and to be honest, I don’t even know the codebase anymore. I get a high level structure, but it’s just a bunch of files. Is it even useful?
Company Culture - If everyone is heads down vibe working in their own little deliverable corner, then when do we get to connect? Where’s the culture? How do younger people meet spouses? How do we mentor each other and motivate each other?
Burn out from refactoring - The next few cycles of AI tooling will make the current ones obsolete and we’ll need to refactor everything again. This will keep happening until there’s no “standard” tech stack and everything is bespoke with terrible support. I mean, I guess the support comes from the dependency of the AI Agent that wrote your code.
Trust and evidence - If there was an anomaly like alien invasion or attack on NYC, it’s actually not that hard to convince me that these things did (or did not) happen. I’d honestly ping friends through WhatsApp to see if they heard anything. I don’t actually know what is real because it’s all coming from the same phone and set of feeds with amplification through the same mess of controlled media. Does it actually matter?
I guess this could have been a list of 30, but it was nice to physically type things out.
This was a nice month of learning, growth, and healing. I played board games with friends, built some Gundam models, and automated some home control centers. Just normal side projects keeping things interesting. I hope to keep this mindset moving forward.
The blogposts I published this month were:
Buying a car is hard to navigate. I read so many blogs and reddit posts about it, but it turns out being in a crazy COVID world actually made a lot of the negotiation and shopping around easier.
I love my basement. I think it has distracted me nicely from the crazy cycle of AI.
![[Travel Advice] Hong Kong](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GP-N!,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%2F62d0d3a0-8131-443d-b9c6-919f13d98b5f_740x740.jpeg)
Hong Kong is still one of my favorite places to go. I should go back sooner than later before I develop a seafood allergy.
Sometimes you just need to know some awesome people to help you with expertise. I guess you can also just have a really smart Clembot. I realized this list is probably different in the next 3 years, so I’ll be sure to revisit.
Chuck Norris is a legend. RIP.
Some ideas for April 2026?
30 Beginner Table tennis Advice - I can’t believe I haven’t published one of these yet!
Lists of 30 App - This was a fun vibe coded app that I’m ready to reveal post Spring Break. Maybe it’ll be a replacement to this?
30 Vibe working 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. This is a great 30 day challenge.
Life in Lists of 30 Audiobooks - As I record these, it’s actually pretty relaxing. It feels a bit weird reading my own book.
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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