Podcasts have this magic where you feel like you’re sitting with the hosts and listening to their conversation. From time to time you even want to intervene and say what you think.

The Uninvited Guest is my way of doing that to one of the must fun podcasts I listen to: Clockwise. I will try to post one of these for every episode that I listen to.

So here are my answers to episode 535: It’s Even Embarrassing in Metric.

Dan’s question

Where are we putting your social media energy these days?

Just like Micah, I really don’t have a lot of energy to put out these days. I scroll threads and mastodon, reply here and there. I was using instagram a lot pre-baby but it’s gone down these days.

Like Dan, I’m waiting for federation with Threads to be in place and maybe I’ll move back to mostly mastodon.

Meg’s question

What subscribers are we canceling this year?

At the end of the year I did a bit of a purge to get expenses under control. Unfortunately that was mostly to podcasts instead of commercial streaming services as the rest of the family was adamantly against it.

But some bigger services were cancelled: Strava, funimation. Day one was also cancelled since I started using Apple’s new Journal app.

Finally I also cancelled F1TV, but I don’t think I’m strong enough to go without formula 1.

Micah’s question

Our Apple Vision Pro thoughts

I don’t plan to get one. Price is too high. The technology looks amazing and from all the initial reactions from people that have used it, it looks promising.

I’m more interested in the RayBan Meta Sunglasses. Too bad it’s linked to Meta.

Jeremy’s Question

What feature we want on our phones or computers

Dan’s point about Siri rings so true to me. We started putting HomePod minis everywhere at home and it’s been great to control the smart devices at home. But every time you ask some knowledge question it sends you to your phone to do a search. That’s unacceptable in 2024.

I personally would love more improvements to Apple’s Journal app: hash tags, search, allow third party apps to suggest things to journal about, and a some sort of “memories” feature like the one in photos.

Bonus question: what’s your most anticipated “thing” in 2024

Having a newborn, getting to the point that he starts sleeping all night, and when he becomes more interactive.

Jeremy announcing having a baby and Dan saying he won’t have time to watch Severance season 2 are a great match to my energy, it’s nice to not feel alone in this being tired all the time.