My Year in Review: Building Ideas, Preserving Knowledge, and Challenging Broken Systems
This year wasn’t about one project. It was about a pattern. A direction. A refusal to sit quietly while broken systems continue unchecked.
When I look back over everything I worked on, researched, wrote, built, questioned, and planned, one theme keeps showing up over and over again: the need to preserve truth, protect people, and redesign systems that no longer serve us.
From Writing to Purpose
The year started with writing, but not casual writing. It was deliberate, structured, and increasingly focused on impact. Blog posts, essays, policy ideas, long-form reflections, and storytelling all served one purpose: making people think.
I explored government failure, corporate greed, healthcare injustice, inflation, labor rights, and why working people keep losing ground. These weren’t abstract opinions. They came from lived experience, historical research, and an unwillingness to accept surface-level explanations.
Writing became less about expression and more about documentation. Putting ideas on record. Leaving something behind that couldn’t be erased by algorithms or forgotten by convenience.
Storytelling as a Tool for Truth
This year also deepened my commitment to storytelling, not as entertainment, but as a way to show reality without filters.
Projects like Breaking the Chains: The Journey of Joe Jackson weren’t fiction for fiction’s sake. They were mirrors. Joe’s struggle was the struggle of millions of Americans working nonstop, uninsured, underpaid, and disposable to the system.
Children’s stories like The Christmas Letters and The Christmas Santa Lost His Magic weren’t just holiday books. They were about belief, loss, perseverance, and responsibility. They were about teaching values in a world that increasingly avoids them.
Storytelling became a way to say what statistics can’t.
Technology, AI, and the Future of Knowledge
One of the most important directions this year took was into knowledge preservation and artificial intelligence.
I didn’t just look at AI as a tool. I treated it as a responsibility.
I explored self-learning systems, autonomous improvement loops, knowledge graphs, and the idea that AI should preserve human knowledge instead of exploiting it. I worked on frameworks for self-programming AI, systems that could learn ethically, document truth, and improve without manipulation.
At the same time, I researched long-term data preservation. Five-dimensional optical storage. Billion-year data lifespans. Digital memory crystals. The idea that human knowledge, stories, and experiences deserve to outlive political cycles and corporate shutdowns.
The question driving all of it was simple:
What happens if we don’t preserve what actually happened?
Challenging Money and Power
This year also sharpened my focus on money and power.
Inflation. Debt. Currency debasement. Bailouts. A system where working people lose purchasing power while institutions are protected.
That’s what led me into deeper research on sound money, gold and silver, and systems like Kinesis that challenge fiat dominance. Not as hype. Not as speculation. But as an alternative worth understanding.
The message was consistent: people need options outside systems designed to drain them slowly.
Politics Without Theater
Politics was unavoidable this year, but I refused to treat it like a sport.
Instead of party loyalty, I focused on structure. The Constitution. Separation of powers. Where government overreaches. Where it fails to protect people. Where it protects itself instead.
I laid groundwork for real policy ideas. Healthcare cost controls. Corporate accountability. Transparent budgets. Technology-driven oversight. Giving citizens a real voice instead of performative voting.
Running ideas, not slogans.
The Memorial Question
One of the most powerful moments this year wasn’t about code or writing. It was a question:
What would it take to build a digital memorial to every person who has ever died in the United States?
That question summed up the year perfectly.
It combined history, technology, ethics, memory, scale, and respect.
It wasn’t about feasibility alone. It was about whether we value people enough to remember them properly.
What This Year Really Was
This year wasn’t clean or linear. It was layered.
Writing fed into politics. Politics fed into technology. Technology fed into preservation. Preservation fed back into storytelling.
Everything connected.
If there’s one thing this year proved, it’s this: progress doesn’t come from silence or comfort. It comes from asking hard questions, documenting uncomfortable truths, and refusing to let important ideas disappear.
I didn’t just create content this year.
I built foundations.
And next year isn’t about starting over.
It’s about building on everything already laid down.
