Something that has persisted through all of my personal systems is a structured daily journaling practice. Each day I write in specific categories. The categories are flexible, and over time I run experiments to improve them. Today I ran such an experiment...

My 1st post of 2026: https://t.co/Mj1L36Vtds

My 0th post, talking about my year 2025 and especially how I navigated my fatigue issues: https://t.co/82pEnxap9s

I'm writing on my blog every week in 2026, about my projects, my life, and the things I'm learning. Thread for the posts!

Read my first post of 2026, "Yearly Kickoff and The Origins of LIFE", here: https://t.co/k0mW9GZw9P

Week 1/52 - I say hi and write about how my self-reflective personal systems got started

Instrumental tracks? You mean diet music?

Oh, and we're now on https://t.co/QBQjtHUMxm ! Gone are the days of humanprogramming dot sbstck dot com. Checkmate Xitter link-throttling filter. You will not get between me and my five mutuals who actually engage with my content 😤

"Here in Washington, the sun mostly goes sideways - but let's call this a sunrise"

Anyways, happy 2026 to my Twitter people :) May it be a wonderful year 🌄 (new favorite emoji, apparently)

This marks a transition in my blog, which used to be called "Human Programming". Now it's just "Daniel Sosebee" and I'll be writing about whatever I feel like. Including lots of human programming :)

Oh yeah - I'm publishing a blog post every Wednesday this year! The one above is a bit of a kick-off, giving an overview of my 2025, in particular how my post-viral fatigue issues came to be and how I've dealt with them (that was the big story this year)

You can listen to this song too, if you read my latest blog post ;) https://t.co/Wn8rCokItP

People listening to my tunes 😊

Realizing my daily journal categories might be best understood as *projects* - the gratitude section is a gratitude project, then there's a relationship projects, habits project, etc. So the process is to iterate on a small list of projects while giving each regular attention.

I'm happy to share about this, since, while I've churned through many personal systems, this particular evolving/structured journaling system has remained relevant to me for a long time. Perhaps you'll find something in it that resonates with you 📃✍️ (fin?)

Over time, by running these experiments, I can shape my journaling practice into something which most effectively accomplishes my goal for the overarching system, which is to align my daily cares and actions with my higher values. ...

For example, I might decide relationships deserves its own section. Or, its own axis... Well, adding axes to my journal is probably too complicated. The point is, I can explore these ideas, and throw out the bad ideas after trying them (or even before). ...

So, in accordance with the the principle of continual adaptation, next time I open my journal I'll come up with a new variation of my categories (or more broadly speaking, a new variation of the daily journaling protocol), and I'll give that a test drive ...

Of course this new structure wasn't perfect - I soon realized that I wished to write about more than just (A)chievements for each relationship, though I did find that to be an acceptable entry point to more free-form reflection...

I found I could direct positive attention towards my cherished relationships by reflecting on recent experiences and writing specifically about "what might I do with this person in the future that would be even more supportive / fun / [insert positive adjective here]?" ...