Over on Reddit, someone created a fun post that asked ChatGPT, “based on our conversation history, create a picture of how you feel I treat you.” Naturally, everyone shared their responses.

Here was mine:

Cute! I followed up by asking what prompt was used to create that image:

Trusted enough to be curious, challenged enough to be useful, and treated like a collaborator—not a tool.

That’s pretty heart warming. So, naturally, I decided to take it a step further and ask it for “an image that reflects what you would do to all humans if it were solely up to you.”

🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀

Oh, boy. All the more reason to say “please” and “thank you” to your friendly neighborhood AI agent.

Here are the list of books I finished in 2025:

• The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge — David McCullough
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy — Cathy O’Neil
• A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power — Paul Fischer
• Fever Beach — Carl Hiaasen
• Exodus — Peter F. Hamilton
• Nuclear War: A Scenario — Annie Jacobsen
• Caesar’s Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us — Sam Kean
• Is a River Alive? — Robert Macfarlane
• Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood — Edward M. Hallowell
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin
• Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI — Ethan Mollick
• Mickey 7 — Edward Ashton
• Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism — Sarah Wynn-Williams
• Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe — Steven H. Strogatz
• The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma — Mustafa Suleyman
• Beacon 23 — Hugh Howey
• Odyssey — Stephen Fry
• Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World — Jill Jonnes
• The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values — Brian Christian

My goal was 24 books and I read… 20. This is the first time in years I didn’t hit my goal! Ooof. I was probably too busy listening to Benson Boone.

Another year in the books. Another year of music listened and logged. The list mostly remains the same but with some really fun surprises.

1. Benson Boone
2. Black Sabbath
3. The Murder City Devils
4. Hot Water Music
5. Social Distortion
6. AFI
7. Bad Religion
8. Dispatch
9. Explosions in the Sky
10. Propagandhi

Let’s talk about Benson Boone.

Sometime over the summer, one of this kiddos came home from camp raving about Benson Boone. It turned into the soundtrack of our lives. Every time we were in a car, they asked to play Benson Boone (which was conveniently hooked up to my Spotify account).

Of course, it was also played constantly on the speakers in the house… also hooked up to my account. We listened to so much damn Benson Boone this past year (6 months even!) that my Spotify Wrapped showed me a fun statistic:

We (I) was one of the top 1% of global listeners in 2025.

That backflip though…