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I Switched My Internet Provider
It Will Not Be Enough
Feb 15 • Stephen Pao
Teaching a New Assistant How to Be Useful
Lessons from a day of configuring OpenClaw permissions and constraints
Feb 13 • Stephen Pao
Grilling, Suburban Life, and Impact to Health
And some props out to the Seattle Seahawks!
Feb 10 • Stephen Pao
AT&T, ICE, and My Internet
Why I May Leave QuantumFiber
Feb 3 • Stephen Pao

January 2026

An Accidental AI Convert
There is hope even for a Retired Techie
Jan 31 • Stephen Pao
Am I Being Nudged?
Right-wing foreign policy media hitting my feed
Jan 25 • Stephen Pao
Questions I’ve Been Asking Myself
Another step in the transplant journey
Jan 20 • Stephen Pao
Returning in 2026
Limping back into writing after a couple weeks off
Jan 12 • Stephen Pao

December 2025

Props to a Fellow Techie
A Surprise on my YouTube Feed
Dec 27, 2025 • Stephen Pao
Limitations of Apple Music
And how I work around them
Dec 22, 2025 • Stephen Pao
Alien vs. Predator, but for Streaming
Why I’m Hitting Pause
Dec 14, 2025 • Stephen Pao

November 2025

Episode 13 —The People In Our Lives
Why Distance Changes Everything
Nov 27, 2025 • Stephen Pao
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