In this month’s retrospective, I write from Italy’s Marche region, where slow living, daily runs in Conero, and family time beat the winter blues. I reflect on leaning harder into large language model agents, a standout pair of running shoes, a stack of AI reading (from Hugging Face, GPTZero, and X’s algorithm), and share music, podcast, and TV picks—including Sasha Marie’s mixes, two insightful podcast episodes, The Pitt, and plenty of Australian Open tennis.

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