“One day becomes another, now becomes then.” —Fredrik Backman

“When I was a kid, I would sometimes play simple videogames in which the objective was…”

“Yeah. I did what the title says. In 2025, I challenged myself…”

On December 26, 2025, I sat on my couch with my dog, staring at the pile of books on the table in front of me.

“Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity. And if a change is meaningful, it is actually big. That's the paradox of making small improvements.” —James Clear

“Happiness is a warm puppy.” —Charles Schulz

“All the world's a stage/And all the men and women merely players.” —Shakespeare

“I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied—about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works—and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological…A new technology does not add or subtract something. It changes everything.” —Neil Postman

“A penny saved is a penny earned.” —Benjamin Franklin and others

“Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.” —Lemony Snicket

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art....It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” —C.S. Lewis

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." —Benjamin Franklin

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." —Pablo Picasso

“Winter is coming.” —George R.R. Martin

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” —Henry David Thoreau

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” —John Burroughs

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” —Blaise Pascal