Month of May 2025
AI Automation and Family Time
//AI generated with ChatGPT-4o with my favorite anime, Cowboy Bebop
Theme of the Month - AI Automation and Family Time
The questions/thoughts that led me to the posts for May 2025 were:
What won’t change in the next 5 years?
How do digital ads show up on your UI/UXs?
How was Switzerland back in 2016?
What random insights have you had in the past quarter?
What have you written, experimented with, and built with Gen AI?
What is your plan for completing your 40 under 40?
This has been a wild month of more accelerated AI progress. Have you seen the latest Google Veo3 (video + audio) outputs? What the crap? I think we’ve just crossed over the line out of my comfort zone.
Also have you seen this? https://experience.odyssey.world/ - it’s the Matrix. We’ve built cameras all over the Matrix and it’s interactive. What the heck…
I spent a lot of time this month reflecting how I want to take advantage of the time we have before SaaS is dead. Where will I continue adding value to the product? Consensys? The Web3 Ecosystem? Is my curiosity an advantage or a distraction? Am I wasting certain potential or just keeping life simple so I don’t have too many open threads obsessed with making side hustles work?
At the end of the day, I’ve been enjoying the boring days. I’d like to instill in my daughter a time to create (rather than time to consume). Creation and productivity with a tangible physical item should bring more joy than the digital creation and the photo. Time with the people you love is a precious IRL humanity premium, and it could possibly the biggest compliment in the future. We’ll just be letting our AI Agents doing our “digital work” while we attend conferences together and talk about things that impact our regular world.
The blogposts I’ve published this month were:
This is worth writing for yourself. It made me feel thankful that there will be a move towards physical interaction and perhaps less of a focus on external digital approval.
This wound up being a very interesting way to see how everything in the digital world is trying to influence you to do or think in a certain way. We’re flooded by companies trying to seek our attention and dollar investment.
![[Travel Advice] Switzerland](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sEDM!,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%2Fe60858e5-2cd2-49d3-ba64-c31dbef3854f_660x346.jpeg)
Switzerland with photography buddies is not a bad way to travel. I still miss that meat volcano.
This is still my favorite thing to pretend to be productive. Anything funny that tickles my fancy will go into a Keep note that I’ll brain dump every few months.
My AI journey has been quite a fun one and continues with a lot of implementation. Clembot has evolved quite a bit and he’s now an entity that knows way too much about me. I have as much fun training it as I did curating photos and creating social brands.
40 is going to sneak up on me pretty quickly. I asked Clembot what I should do to prepare for the next year and a half or so. This was actually pretty good guidance.
Some ideas for June 2025?
30 Radical-Yet-Reasonable Laws - These are random laws I think would be super useful to enact.
30 Cultural Side Effects from Mass AI Adoption - I thought about this major shift and creation of buzzwords based on the new normal.
[Travel Advice] Japan with Family - Can’t wait for this trip and to write about all the amazing foods we’ll eat.
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.
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.
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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