iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Chris SM @daiyi.co · 30/09/2026

i keep running into more reasons while it’s cool to eschew involving the govt in ur romantic life, being legally married in the US is just smart. TiL: you only get survivor benefits via social security if you are married.

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 30/09/2026

why are my contact lenses $400 (before insurance rebate) in the US and $165 in canada???

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 30/09/2026

US capitalism doesn't make any sense. how is it that i can buy better glasses for cheaper on zenni dot com than i can through my insurance, which gives me 100s of dollars of rebate on glasses???

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 30/09/2026

when ur single friend is sick, it’s nice to bring them soup. everyone needs someone to take care of them sometimes 😌

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 28/09/2026

i'm torn because i love scifi, but i also feel like in the US, saying yes to new tech is functionally equivalent to fueling the surveillance police state. how does iceland avoid this?

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 12/09/2026

i tried all the stuff that my friends sang praises of. tried not drinking coffee, tried creatine, tried magnesium, tried a gratitude journal. tbh the only thing that noticeably helped me feel better was quitting vegetarianism

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 12/09/2026

when coaches are like “to get strong the real trick is these lifestyle changes” and i’m like, high key i stopped drinking alcohol, i get 9hr of sleep, i eat vegetables everyday, and i still feel awful!!!!

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 10/09/2026

oh apple pencil!! this changes everything!

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 04/09/2026

i both love and morn that asking to exchange phone numbers when getting to know someone is in again. a return to the defiantly unscalable and personal.

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 04/09/2026

yes! i love having a separate computer vs notebook/sketching/physical open space zone. it’s a luxury i haven’t afforded in the last few years and my creativity/output has visibly suffered. really good daylight helps me a lot. also being able to maintain an ideal body temp.

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 04/09/2026

i use protonmail personally and puremail for the business, both good! welll i thought the protonmail app was shit for years (especially dealing with offline debouncing) but now it’s finally usable. for puremail i set it up to use with the apple mail app

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 02/09/2026

i mean we’re all dying. but i get what u mean. you wanna see some cats n dogs

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 27/08/2026

i think i would get more done if i were slightly less detail-oriented

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 20/08/2026

is it just me or is it absolutely wild that you're supposed to a house after looking at it for 15 minutes. my ideal process would include speaking with all the neighbors, observing the passing of the seasons, and bringing my friends there to see if they all fit

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 20/08/2026

yes! one of my favorite reads of the last couple years. along with Barbarian Days, Braiding Sweetgrass and A Memory Called Empire, if you want to get a sense of my reading taste :D

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 19/08/2026

but have you read Inventing the Renaissance?

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 17/08/2026

wow finally a reason to go to SF

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 16/08/2026

why are climbing and surfing not in the winter olympics?? performance boulder and sport climbing happens near freezing, and big waves depend on the winter swell

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 13/08/2026

definitely! i often start off getting broad overviews from wikipedia. it’s not gonna tell me the surf spots though 🙂 i was hoping for a “mountain project for surfing” (crowdsourced with spicy comments from locals and visitors alike)

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 10/08/2026

i’m so mad i actually feel like starting to publish on my blog again

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 10/08/2026

i literally feel phished when i start reading a local‘s blog post only to realize it’s generated by AI like i could have asked an LLM myself and the output would have been better??

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 10/08/2026

im traveling and really want to get to know the location, but all the online articles i’m finding are generated 😩 the only hack to find human voice seems to be to walk into a curated bookstore and purchase material published before 2022

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 03/08/2026

omg i’m watching the hownot2 video about this 🙈

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 03/08/2026

omg so cuuuute how do you prevent spam!? i made a cute comments section on my blog but its primarily used for spam so i have to shut it down 😭

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 28/07/2026

my hamstring rehab is kicking my butt

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 23/07/2026

the ”get confused” myth was so prevalent when i was a kid, and it’s been debunked (people who learn more languages get better at leaning more languages), but it persists!

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 23/07/2026

right! so many countries have bi/trilingual students out of public school. it’s just because as a culture we don’t care. or maybe “america no.1 everyone speaks english anyway” mentality??

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 22/07/2026

i have noticed a shift since my childhood where bilingual=poor people, to how now where bilingual is a status symbol (u have the means to send ur kid to a special immersion program)

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 22/07/2026

laws against bilingual education ): calmatters.org/education/k-... things have changed a lot since our childhood. the elementary school i went to now has a bilingual mandarin program. i feel sad at what could have been for me, glad the world is moving forward.

calmatters.org

'We were punished for speaking Spanish': Inside California's slow recovery of bilingual education

After banning bilingual education in 1998, California voters brought it back 8 years ago. Schools are still trying to rebuild their programs.

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 22/07/2026

they’re so good now! so many things are better. try TR solo next 😂

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 11/07/2026

the downside to being an endurance athlete who grew up as an endurance athlete is that your go-to solution is pushing through pain until you’re unconscious

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 07/07/2026

maybe i need to wait longer!

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 07/07/2026

I tested it on a few playground that are labeled on OSM, and it usually won't load, but after logging in and letting the browser tab (I gave up trying to debug on my phone) sit for some minutes and then trying the button again it does load. I can't figure out the magical incantation!

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 07/07/2026

ohh we usually camp in the van so no hotels! but in terms of stopping, dogs need to pee and eat way less often than humans so they can follow the adult schedule in a way that kids cannot

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 07/07/2026

i can’t seem to get the seeding to trigger from the “search this area button”! it says “loading playgrounds for this area” but it doesn’t load

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 07/07/2026

much….much easier than w kids or even adults

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 02/07/2026

it’s the pool parking lot

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 02/07/2026

if u like sci-fi and breaking the 4th wall and maybe a bit of history reframed as space opera you MUST read Inventing the Renaissance

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 02/07/2026

omg 100% i miss the internet of actual bookfriends

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 02/07/2026

this is great, i laughed at least 3 times (in addition to gleaning new ideas for how i should work w these tools)

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 01/07/2026

a climbing gym, which is the closest i've come to meaningful public institution in adulthood

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 30/06/2026

i instruct ai to only speak in non-sentence bullet points without first person (the downside is that my ai-detection is weak). if i accidentally get exposed to ai-prose, i immediately read a random page of the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy to cleanse and re-prime my mind

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 30/06/2026

it sounds ridiculous but this is why we are building a gym

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 30/06/2026

the hardest part about making a webpage is thinking about how to say what i want to say

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 29/06/2026

everyone wets their beak

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 28/06/2026

self-love is dragging yourself to the pool even when you feel like you’re about to perish

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 27/06/2026

i saw a pile of trash out of the corner of my eye and thought it was my dog curled up for a nap

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Chris SM @daiyi.co · 26/06/2026

the eastern sierra 😂😭 (whatever dataset you used seems to skip over the area entirely, i had to add a bunch manually)

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