Remembering My 2025

Getting these out of my system. Excludes fitness.

Jan 02, 2026

Happy New Year, and Welcome to 2026.

I am closing out my 2025 records and according to my ChatGPT Unwrapped, I can run spreadsheets for miles, or I can miles for spreadsheets.

Enjoy my immortalization of my 2025 across my ChatGPT Usage, Music, Endel, Youtube, and Travel. Fitness was also a key item to be remembered, and that’ll be its own post.

Enjoy and Happy New Year!

Past 2025 Quarterly Updates

Q3 + Q4 Updates: Travel, Shoes, and Food
Q2 Update
Q1 Update

What my ChatGPT 2025 Unwrap says:

And it’s one sentence zinger is ““I build systems that let people, capital, and time compound quietly without breaking.”

I fully adopted ChatGPT, adding it as shortcut on my phone, and using the OpenAI Atlas Browser, and even getting an enterprise subscription going for it.

What I’ll Remember 2025 in Music

F1 Lose My Mind ft. Doja Cat - Pop EDM & Great for starting a run
Incinerator by Bear McCreary ft Serj Tankian - Metal, Chaotic, it’s mile 9 of a 13 miler.
Gosh by Jamie xx - Slow House, Great for Tunnel Vision, great for mile 3 after runners high kicks in
Shaking Body by Ezra Collective - Joyful and Groovy, great for either warmup or cool down.
Remember by Asake - Afrobeats, great for mid run
Earthquake by Jisoo - K-Pop, great any time
RATATATA by BABYMETAL x ElectricCallboy - Go sprint. Zone 5.
Fire for You by Cannons - Eh dont run to this
Golden by Huntr/x (performed live at TIME) - Zone 4 or Zone 5 run, lets go.
Pporappippam by SUNMI - Zone 2 run after you get your 2nd gel.
Espresso Macchiato by Tommy Cash - It’s a fun run
The 7th Guild by Holy Land - Zone 3 or zone 4 run.

In 2025, I made the massive switch from Spotify - 12 years of being a paid customer - to full on Apple. While the unwrapped isn’t as socially resonating as Spotify, the quality of daily features including higher fidelity music, more random randomization, live-sets, and discoverability is better than Spotify. Unfortunately, both Spotify and Apple Music have a terrible UI continuity experience so if you are thinking of switching because you listen to music in a Tesla, you will be disappointed.

What Travels I enjoyed in 2025

I also saw a lot of travel in 2025 that I enjoy. I’ll keep this portion simple.

I’d like to revisit and relax a the Dodler Grand in Zurich 🇨🇭 🏔️, enjoy another night time charade of whiskey in Davos 🇨🇭 🥃, get my fix of shuwa from Rosna in Muscat until my stomach quits 🇴🇲 🍖, go scuba diving in in Dubai 🇦🇪 , continue my shopping spree in Saigon until my suitcases overflows 🇻🇳 🛍️🧳, die again because of the seafood in Mi Compa in CDMX 🇲🇽 🦐🔥, and return to upper solitude at Mammoth 🇺🇸 🏔️❄️.

That New App in 2025

It’s not often I find a “new app” that I find myself gravitating to, and even paying for. 2025 was the year I discovered “Endel”, a soundscape app to help you create a vibe. I used it for 19,500 minutes, or 325 hours.

If you’re interested, here’s a two week trial (yes this benefits me, thank you in advance). If you actually want to pay for it, I recommend waiting for their 50% sales. (https://endel.sng.link/Ezeow/6l18q/r_4356ecdfe7)

I encountered it in a Wim Hof breathing class, and often use it when my mind is experiencing a sense of being overwhelmed to a state of paralysis and disfunction. I also use it during twilight moments to “sleep”, and making sleep and rest feel long, even if it was 20 minutes or after the first morning alarm.

What I Youtube in 2025

And believe it or not, the AMEX Plat refresh now includes Youtube Premium and I’m now a Youtube premium subscriber. Which means 2026 will have a lot more of Youtubing.

I know an obscene amount about airplane logistics, space exploration, and food manufacturing as a result of my youtubing. I also have an appreciation of various different culture though hilariously it’s not that I watch interviews of people, I watch history & current events of each country I visit. I’m also a sucker for tech product unboxing because I don’t shell on a sell that easily.