Cute doggie, thoughts on touching grass, and the coming bubble pop

For the first time since starting a family, I got an average of over seven hours of sleep in one week.

I can’t remember the last time I felt like I had sustainable energy over that period of time.

I’m looking forward to seeing what happens if I continue this trend, and hopefully I won’t derail it. It feels like this should be my non-negotiable first, and there’s a part of me that wonders what would’ve happened if I had made this a priority sooner.

I’m working on a few things.

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

BlueSky Bit - Aww look at this pooch!

Medium Moment - We weren’t meant to live through a screen

Substack Sampling - It’s only the beginning of AI…and we’re in a bubble

Prismatic Progress:

To build on what I mentioned earlier, I went through the last few years of my sleeping habits that I’ve tracked through Fitbit.

I went from eight hours of sleep before starting a family to roughly five to six hours of sleep.

I mostly meandered around that level, and you could definitely see some hiccups from different points in my life when I sacrificed it more for content creation on YouTube and certainly in the first half of this year. It might be interesting to share how some of my life milestones impacted these minor deviations.

It wasn’t until I decided to take my writing a bit more seriously that I started focusing on my sleep. Funny how that happens.

Anyway, just wanted to take a small victory lap. A whole week of actually sleeping properly hasn’t happened in a very long time, and I’m getting too old to mess with my body too much longer.

Maybe this is the first true moment when I start to get out of the “hustle and grindset” culture that all the kids are crowing about these days.

There’s a lot more on my mind to share. Hopefully I’ll have time to push the final drafts out this week! Now that I’m starting to revisit older ones, there are a lot of them!

We keep moving forward.