A Cleaning of the Mind

As 2025 comes to a close in a few short weeks, I'll be doing some cleaning of my own detritus of sorts here on the blog. Nothing is going to be deleted, but I will be shoving out some rough drafts I've had noodling around for much of the year. Stuff about remote work, my experiences with cannabis, a lament for the lack of machine learning in personal healthcare, and more.

They will be rough.

They will be curt.

They will be direct.

But I feel like if I get them down onto an actual post, thrown into the ether, then at least they're out of my head. A few kilobytes of text on the internet is far easier on my personal waste balance than allowing these thoughts to rehearse ad infinitum inside my head with OCD and its associated energy costs.

In the meantime, I've also added a BTC donation address to my About page. I strongly dislike cryptocurrency in general, but with 2025 being quite the nightmare of a year, I figured I'd throw it out there for any wayward bots or readers who want an exit ramp from crypto ("make it someone else's problem to cash out") or just feel generous towards a queer dinosaur with excess they don't need.

It's been a rough year. Keep your loved ones close, take care of yourself (so that you may take care of others as able), and here's hoping 2026 is better for all of us.