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I hope I at least get credit for considering them.
But the amount of time I spend on my phone is becoming a problem.
The other day, TikTok accounted for 48% of my battery usage.
And my wife is running out of patience.
My attempts at multi-tasking paying attention to her and the phone simultaneously are failing.
I’m sort of stuck in a vicious cycle of social media posting and then social media checking.
The latter is about seeing the notice and approval of thousands of people I do not know.
It’s a cycle I long to break.
Look for a similar post next year.
Digitzing old media
In my attic are boxes of old photos, stacked like monoliths to a bygone era.
What I realize is that there’s a whole section of my life that’s digitally undocumented.
Back in the early aughts, I started digitizing my old 8mm video tapes.
It was such a massive project that I only got halfway through and have never returned to the project.
Perhaps 2025 is the year I finally take Mitch’s advice.
Also, I’m selling tickets for people to come to visit my mountain of photo boxes in 2026.
The details should qualify me, if not for doctor status, then at least residency.
The problem is that I ignore all of this data.
I couldn’t tell you how well I slept or my standing heart rate.
Do I sit too often?
I track every workout mostly core and each long walk with my wife.
I know the details of those workouts but not the trends.
I live an unexamined physical life, and I want that to change.
I want to know the full scale of my walking routines.
Like, how many miles am I walking a month?
I don’t know, but I could.
Is my BMI on the right track?
After the holidays, I sometimes feel a bit um bloated.
I worry that I’ll still be too busy for this kind of introspection.
Isn’t it enough that I work out almost every day?
Still, if I’m going to wear these things, I should be getting more out of them.
When I’m working, it’s the screen I like playing in the background.
However, the M4-runningiPad Pro 13-inch, for example, is an incredibly powerful system.
I want to do more.
Can I, for instance, use it in place of myMacbook Air M3?
Also, why not take more notes on the iPad?
It can recognize my scribbles and convert them to text.
I also could do some serious photo editing on the platform.
At the very least, I’d love to draw on the iPad daily.
How do I carve out time to do that in 2025?
One answer might be carrying theiPad mini (A17 Pro)with me.
It has most of the same capabilities (no right-sized, physical magic keyboard, though).
I can do this one, right?
Supporting every platform imaginable in one home is a recipe for disaster or at least dissatisfaction.
Forget making automations on scenes when you have a patchwork of intelligent systems.
Considering what I do for a living, it’s embarrassing.
My wife said little about the situation but offered heavy side-eye.
Imagine her frustration if the one plug she knows by name disappears.
But this is the kind of pain I must endure if I finally want smart home homogeny.
And yo do not tell me thatMatterfixes all this.
It has yet to help, and I don’t think it will solve many problems in 2025.
Other things I think about addressing in 2025 but won’t:
Look, try not to judge me.
At least I’m thinking about all this.
Feel free to email me with your successful tech resolution efforts.
I will be chastened and maybe share some in a future post.
