Happy New Year everyone.
I am not dead or quitting, just uncharacteristically silent. I have a power supply fan in my main PC failing in slow motion, and I am doing the Indiana Jones swap-the-treasure-with-a-bag-of-sand calculations as we speak. I am filled with questions.
Do I change it in the morning?
Do I change it in the evening?
Do I change it less than three days before World of Warcraft Raid time in case my current replacement power supply is missing something, and then I have to do this twice?
So many questions.
Let’s just answer one today:
What are my thoughts on 2023?
I am 50% of the way to my first minimum payout as an Amazon Affiliate Marketer. Yes, I have made five dollars in two and a half years of linking stuff. Keep up the good work, everyone! Your decisions not to click (or buy) anything keep me in contention for Worst Amazon Affiliate Marketer in history.
I have a backlog of two and a half months of blog posts to write. This means that I am still coming up with new things to rant about consistently year after year.
I have embraced Grammarly Premium, but not yet generative AI for my personal writing habits, so much for John always being on the bleeding edge. I have a later post explaining why I am not leveraging this more.
I have started investing in the stonks. Not much, but also not zero. I have had my own “do no harm” theories on money and investing, which have changed this year. This might be too spicy for a blog post. If you are reading this and wondering what I am talking about, then it means you and I should have a 45-minute social meeting to catch up because we have not talked for too long. Please reach out, and let’s get something on the calendar.
I also did not observe much of a change in the “next big thing”… anywhere. 2022 is when we got generative AI; while it has incrementally improved, there is nothing really newey-new-new in 2023.
With all of that said, I am very excited for 2024.
I am embarking on a career journey into “shiny new” territory at work.
I should have one if not two, indie game launches.
I may make a bet for a steak dinner on the timeliness of NFTs, similar to the 2026 steak dinner bet I have for AR/VR, which is still 50/50 even though it is two years away. I think we are going to be four years out on mass market adoption of distributed ledgers in games, and I do not yet have the metrics for said bet.
I apologize for the silence for the past two weeks. The intermittent fan noise of my PC prevented me from putting up the “We will be back soon” sign on the front door. You all deserve better.
I will see you next week!
