I kind of dig this new Buttondown feature where I can reply to a message from a subscriber right from the Buttondwon dashboard. 💌

If you want to watch the final ShopTalk Show episode together, it starts in about 5 minutes over here on their YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch

Xmas tree edition of my selfie a day for a year, day 118, Dec 14, 2025.

(I can claim no decoration credits other than carrying it up the stairs and assembling.)

A person wearing glasses stands in front of a decorated Christmas tree.

Birthday party pickups in what feels like a balmy -25C.

Selfie a day for a year, day 117, Dec 13, 2025 edition. #canada

A person wearing glasses and a red beanie is sitting inside a car, looking up at the car's interior light panel on the ceiling.

Wake Up Dead Man, 2025 - ★★★★½

Watched on Saturday December 13, 2025.

School pickups on -30C days.

Selfie a day for a year, day 116, Dec 12, 2025 edition. #winter

A person wearing a red beanie and glasses is sitting in the driver's seat of a car, looking at the camera.

Die Hard, 1988 - ★★★½

Watched on Friday December 12, 2025.

Does nobody at Descript ever have to stop editing a project and come back to it? There doesn’t seem to ever be any “here’s where you left off” tracking in any of my projects—hence the need for a “HEY CHRIS EDIT HERE” reminder in the script that might get left in the transcript on export.

Wake Up Dead Man is out on Netflix now, but I’d still encourage you to see it in theatres if you can. Not to raise your expectations too high, but it’s literally the best movie ever made in the history of the world I know this sounds like a joke I’m making but I’m 100% for truesies.

If I hadn’t just switched invoicing systems, I’d be hopping on to Studioworks right now after hearing Chris Shiflet & Jessica Hische talk about it on The ShopTalk Show this week. As it is, I still might switch anyway just because I love their vision for it.