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Cake day: July 26th, 2025

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    1. Do as many pushups as you can.
    2. Read.
    3. Write a to-do list for the day, week, or rest of your life.
    4. Go for a walk.
    5. Work on your car.
    6. Get rid of stuff.
    7. Journal.
    8. Clean your place.
    9. Clean yourself.
    10. Clean your pet.
    11. Make a paper mache man.
    12. Spend 30 minutes to an hour on an old hobby.
    13. Organize your digital life.
    14. Travel alone.
    15. Cancel subscriptions.
    16. Draw.
    17. Stretch.
    18. Inventory your kitchen.
    19. Learn some words and phrases in another language.
    20. Go for a ride.
    21. Cook or try to cook.
    22. Write a letter.
    23. Make a playlist.
    24. Do a weird meditative thing that you never would’ve thought to do.
    25. Visit a cemetery.
    26. Do a sport by yourself.
    27. Rearrange/redecorate your room.
    28. Go to a museum.
    29. Fight the ocean.
    30. Go to a movie.
    31. Eat at a restaurant.
    32. Make plans.










  • Yeah, that’s the balance required. I think it’s important to learn how to operate in an analog world first and not until after appreciating how to navigate the world to use more modern techniques.

    Calculators were not allowed in my math classes growing up and I think that allowed better understanding because I learned processes. I hated it and snuck my calculator at times regardless, but come test time I had to do maths by hand.

    I see the same problem with control + f and now with generative AI. I fear a growing brain drain from not learning foundations properly. I believe the use of advanced tools should be earned.