January Recap
This has been the longest 90 days of January.
This has felt like the longest 90 days of January, but it was an eventful one.
First, I truly miss writing semi–long form. Being so heavily active on Twitter these last few months has atrophied me into brain-rot dopamine scrolling. I’m making it a point to be more mindful of my time there and to start molding my thoughts back into longer, deeper conversations.
Job Hunt Progress
For anyone getting back into the job market: it’s a tough one, especially with all the layoffs; but is it possible? yes.
Learn how to optimize your resume, create real conversations, and don’t rely on spraying and praying your resume into Workday or Ashby.
Earlier this year, I started creating job-hunt videos (you can see them here), and they gained a decent amount of traction.
That traction led to conversations, which then led to interviews.
I also started diving into ATS systems and learned how to optimize my resume to fit.
I’ve been super active on Twitter because that’s where the conversations happen.
I’ll write a longer article about this shortly.
These are all the jobs I applied to in January and the results.
January results:
3 direct referrals from friends and former clients
2 interviews (with one company)
2 ghosted
Life is meant to be lived.
We had besties visiting us from KC, and it’s been about 1.5 years since we last saw their oldest (4) and their newborn (17 months). We skied, made big family breakfasts at our house, and ate a ton of delicious food with great hangs.
I’m incredibly grateful to have the freedom to enjoy moments like these with family and friends, while running a business that’s still support our lifestyle <3
CES / Work
I had a last-minute booking for CES 2026, which kept alive my streak of nine years covering and shooting CES. It was a smaller project, but we did get to shoot an interview with will.i.am. Will was super cool, energetic and genuinely passionate about his many projects.
Below is a video of us driving through a blizzard the morning of the shoot (January 7th) with zero visibility (but we had chains)
Each year I cover CES, I notice fewer and fewer film and marketing crews. Camera tech keeps getting more compact, and companies are increasingly relying on salaried, internal marketing teams to handle content - which is totally fine, but it’s a clear signal to shift focus into a more niched area.
Vibe Coding Projects
As y’all know, I picked up Vibe Coding in July and became a big fan of Replit. I built and shipped three iOS apps, ported a few personal websites, and was generally really successful with my time there. I was a huge product advocate…
…until they removed one of their best features: Assistant. It allowed me to build with full control, high precision with fair pricing - and they replaced it with something that does half the function with 3x the errors.
Since then, I’ve used it sparingly over the past two months and haven’t come anywhere near using my $25 allowance.
I get that it’s a business, but alienating portions of your user base, including big advocates like myself — for greed just makes it feel gross to use.
But such is life.
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Brilliant recap. And the subtitle 😆
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