Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of low stakes time travel. I'm your friend David

Pierce, and I am sitting here doing my New Year's resolutions. I discovered a long time ago that if I

do my New Year's resolutions, like on December 29th or more likely like January 17th, they don't

actually get done. Or I'm just tired. and so my ambitions are like go outside once this

year and so my goal now is to find a day usually in December where I'm more present more active

feeling better feeling more ambitious and that's when I do some real goal setting and I try to think

of it like goal setting not not resolutions. I've also learned

that I should make them very small and very actionable. So like a couple of years ago, my goal was

to read one page of a book every single day just as a way to kickstart some of that energy again.

And it was such a small thing that I would feel guilty not doing it. So I actually did it every day

that year because it's only one page. But the idea is when you read one page, you read more than one

page, and then all of a sudden you're reading a lot more in a way that feels less sort of

over your head than the idea of like, I'm going to read 50 books this year. And I read more than

50 books that year. Perfect strategy. Absolutely no notes.

Anyway, I will share my tech resolutions at some point, by the way. I've done that before,

and people have said they like it, just having some ideas about how I want to use tech better

next year. So I'll share those, but that's for another episode. So I've got to figure some of those

out. Use my phone less. Didn't work. So we're going to try some new things. Today, we're doing the second episode in our

series previewing 2025. Like we said last week, 2025 is going to be a big year. There's regulation

stuff happening. There's a new administration coming in in the U.S. There's questions about the Fedaverse.

There's questions about AI.

Is all of this going to amount to like the next big thing in technology or not?

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