So long 2025. Hello 2026.
It the words of a leadership teacher I had, it’s time to ask the check-in questions.
- What went well
- What didn’t go well
- What can I do differently for 2026
What went well
It was my first full year of doing weeknotes, I started at the tail end of 2024. I wouldn’t say I’m prolific and on time with them, but they shake up the excuse for bigger pieces of perfection and got me hitting publish more often.
I touched on every one of Ongs Psychodynamics of an Oral Culture. My own thoughts on it all – the one characteristic of a literate society vs post literate one, is “words are not signs“. in post literate the word “stop” is no different than the emoji “🛑” Now’s the time to stew, fallow, and see what I can improve on and refine.
What else?
- Got a cool new certificate.
- Helping a friend and doing some fun work launching and growing a little candy shop in Whitehorse.
- Started really digging into AI – with a little “vibe” (🙄) coding on a pet project.
- Finally formally ADHD diagnosed. Start seeing what I can do about that.
What didn’t go well
Let’s skim these to stay light:
- The big elephant 🐘 of didn’t go well: furlough to layoff to WTF.
- The body has been a struggle this year.
- Started ADHD meds (yay) switch from private to public health and lost the ADHD meds (boo). All for OK reasons – caution and due diligence and all. But still… I was seeing benefits, and now I’m back to limbo.
What can I do differently for 2026
Not really what can I do “differently” more like, what am I already trying to do differently that I’ll continue or try more of.
Note: there’s aren’t resolutions, I don’t like resolutions. They are more like – I’m-saying-them-out-loud-in-public-so-maybe-I-might-do-them things.
- keep on with the ADHD meds/exploration train
- keep exploring AI to build more things
- getting out into the world, maybe a meetup or conference
- more physical activity