There comes a time in everyone’s life when they’ve consumed too much of something, and they find the very notion of consuming more sickening. This is the very basis for my yearly theme. 2025 was finally the year were I felt my overconsumption of technology was getting the best of me. So this year, my theme is digital detox.

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Show Notes

• My 2026 Yearly Theme
• My 2025 Yearly Theme
• Yearly Theme Archive
• My Interview with Amanda Goetz (It was 496, not 498!)
• My Favorites of 2025
• Paper & Smoke
• My AI Manifesto

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction
03:30 Grading The Year of Being Present
11:27 What I Learned from The Year of Being Present
14:57 My 2026 Yearly Theme
17:06 Goal 1: Using my Devices Less
22:55 Goal 2: Live in the Analog World
27:35 Wrapping Up

• (00:00) - Introduction

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