Declutter and Focus

2025 has been a year of declutterring and focusing.

The declutterring is the hardest. I may still love that long sleeve shirt with holes in the right elbow. (Why always the right elbow? I’m left handed.) But it’s no longer good for me, and I should have gotten rid of it years ago.

Whether it’s a former friend—a great person who went silent and indifferent—or a newsletter from a company that rejected my 2023 job application and only contacted me afterwards because GDPR required it—the time has come to simplify and focus.

Now just a few hundred LinkedIn newsletters and email subscriptions to go.

And to see where I can focus now.

Privacy by John Maus

(AI wildebeest and iguana images from Imagen 3)

Discovered a song about privacy (by John Maus) and had to create a reel that used the song. Note the mDL privacy-preserving features toward the end of the reel.

“Dead bolts and windowed bars

Lowered drapes and screened calls

Headphones on tightly”

https://www.instagram.com/share/_ejtehYyr

Privacy.