build your personal archive
One thing I think we should do more of in 2026; is write more.
What I liked about the 2000s, among so many other things, was how they documented everything. Think of the home videos, reality documentaries, the personal blogs, and physical media, all driven by the rise of the internet. People creating and sharing built the archives we dig from today to learn about the past.
It also allowed us to have a sense of nostalgia for the things before us. As we live our lives, sometimes our memories are not a reliable narrator. We forget, and that aids erasure.
So, write more so you can read it back and remember. Document something you learned, a problem you figured out at work, your personal thoughts as a young adult, and your perspectives. It could be what made you happy on a particular Wednesday, something new you tried, or why you liked a song you heard randomly.
Start building your archive. A time capsule that you or others can look back at to feel the same feeling you felt when you experienced it. You don’t have to put this on the internet if you aren’t comfortable. Just pick up a physical/digital journal, a private blog, or a Notion page, and write, however scrappy it is.
Do it before your memory fades.