Claws front and center, the long game of AI, and what we should take from it improving steadily

Ok. Some of my tinkering has paid off.

Some of it hasn’t.

I still managed to average out to seven hours of sleep this week, but I didn’t do it continuously. I tried to do some of my work during lunch break, but it was rather strange to do it then. My work as an engineer is exactly that. It’s hard to shift into any other mode.

Once you build a habit in one part of the day, it’s not going to go over well if you try to do the activity outside of that time. Breaking up my sleep schedule only works decently if I don’t do it every night.

Here’s what I’ve come across this week:

BlueSky Bit - Claws out, still cute

Medium Moment - Writing is a long game, and most don’t get it

Substack Sampling - What we must learn in the face of the fact that AI is improving

Prismatic Progress:

I’m making significant progress on reading, and I pushed out two rather hefty articles.

I’ve decided that 2026 will be the year that I space out and focus down on the publishing rate of the ideas that I’ve cultivated and developed this year. I’m shifting into the reflective portion of my work, and there’s plenty to celebrate in that arena. I know who I want to help, what I’m about, and what I stand for.

Next year is going to be much trickier in some ways as I step into my roles professionally and personally in a bigger way. By this time next year, things might look very different.

Time to collect the frogs that I’ve been growing in my pond and line them up for consumption.