Live in the future, build what's missing.

boxx.substack.com · 7,148 words · saved by 7 readers

Maybe it’s “living in 2025”, maybe it’s “being 23”… but here’s how life’s been feeling from where I stand in the world. Nothing feels stable anymore. The world feels hyper-individualized, we’re polarized, we’re drowning in ✨content.✨ Fancy words bounce around my brain — AI Hallucination, Enshittification, the Dead Internet Theory. Productivity, efficiency, agency. Agency. Agency. Agents? Agentic? Agentic AI Agents???!?!?! All this and we didn’t even get a song of the summer. It’s hard to tell if this is how everyone else is experiencing life — surely there are elementary school teachers and lawyers whose days have remained relatively unchanged by the summersaults the tech world is undergoing — but there are definitely signs that it’s not just me. If you’ve had any recent interactions with a 10 year old, if you’ve tried to get hired for an entry level job, if you attended the inaugural Brainrot Games and met (or are) one of the several people who routinely have 16-20 hours of screen tim

It’s time for my bi-annual post. We’re back baby1. Life Update Speedrun: - graduated from Waterloo’s Systems Design Engineering Class of 2025. 🎉 - moved to Toronto. 🕺 💃 🪩 ✨ - FINALLY working full time on Wygo (“Why go”), the company I’ve been laying the ground work for for years and years and years of my life. Shoutout Chris, world's best cofounder <3 Lots of other life happened, and I wrote almost none of it down.23 And now here I am — sitting in a big-city cafe on my laptop, ready to share what’s next. 0:00 -0:24 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please…

Live in the future, build what's missing.

saved by

related reading