🛬 We're back to LA. It's been two intense weeks. We mainly ate and put on a few extra pounds. We didn't rest, but we dedicated all our free time to relatives and friends. Maybe next year we'll have to change our approach, otherwise we won't survive 😅. Coming back didn't give us any particular feeling; in fact, it felt like we'd been away for just a few weeks instead of a whole year. We also noticed that when we're here in California, we have the habit of calling Milan home, while in the past two weeks in Italy, we always called California home. It's funny how things change perspective based on the time and place they happen. However, we're happy to be back here, in the warmth and at 20 degrees Celsius.

📵 I believe I'm one step away from the long-awaited liberation from social media slavery. These two past weeks, I practically never opened any social media app on my phone and only took photographs without ever posting them. On the contrary, my mind was wandering about what my next post could be about and the future projects of this newborn 2025. Hence my decision to reshape my iPhone's homepage, "hide" toxic apps as much as possible, and leave space only for what I know can enrich me instead of making me waste time and sleep. I'll make a dedicated post later in the year.

📋 I appreciated this short list made by Steve for 2025. I don't like making a list of New Year's resolutions at the beginning of the year that I know I won't keep. Instead, I prefer to set tangible goals that I hope to achieve by December.

IN

• blogging
• podcasting (I hope to start and complete a new idea I've had for some time. I'll talk about it in due course)
• gaming
• reading
• music
• more sport
• more California discovery
• writing

OUT

• worrying too much
• social media
• being afraid of creating
• wasting money on useless apps and subscriptions

📺 My wife Noemi hates starting TV series that she knows aren't finished. She hates having to wait a week for a new episode or a whole year for a new season. I don't know if it exists, but she perfectly embodies the stereotype of binge-watching. It doesn't make much difference for me, but I probably at least need to at least review a summary of the previous season when the new one is released: I have a terrible memory. I was thinking about this because lately, we've watched almost exclusively self-contained Mini Series: Madness, The Perfect Couple, Baby Reindeer, etc. They don't require a big commitment, they have episodes that are on average 1hr-long, comparable to a short movie, and we know from the start what we're getting into. No more than 5 episodes, knowing we can reach the end without the anxiety of waiting. I don't know if it comes from our recent experience using various platforms, but I'm noticing more and more often the Mini Series label next to newly published productions. Could it finally be a trend? Have they realized that the excess and abundance of content is leading us to crazy mental confusion?