Over the summer, I jumped from ChatGPT to Claude AI for Claude Code, and in the autumn, I switched to Gemini for Antigravity. Now in the winter, I will be switching back to ChatGPT because of the new Codex app for Mac.

Watching the Olympics in the CBC Gem app!

Upgraded to the Apple Watch Series 11.

I started a new YouTube channel on 21 December 2025, and thus far with 34 videos, it has 256 subscribers, as of 13 February 2026. Not bad, but I want it to do better.

My PayPal account is older than some people on social media.

The ultimate 5-hour walking video I did in Milan for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics! https://youtu.be/sdj0pjRZ1R0

Eliminate distractions. Focus on what elevates you.

Discover Tara Park by Modon: Smart Urban Living on Reem Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE 🇦🇪 https://www.thepinnaclelist.com/featured/discover-tara-park-by-modon-smart-urban-living-on-reem-island-abu-dhabi-uae/

Papohaku Beach Estate – 3036 Kalua Koi Road, Maunaloa, Hawaii, USA 🇺🇸 – $4,200,000 https://www.thepinnaclelist.com/real-estate/papohaku-beach-estate-3036-kalua-koi-road-maunaloa-hawaii-usa/

Essential subscriptions for vibe coding:

- Claude Max with VS Code
- Perplexity Max with Comet Assistant
- Apple Music with AirPods Max

How I use AI:

- ChatGPT for personal assistance and creative work
- Claude for coding and technical work
- Perplexity for research and agentic work
- Brave Leo for quick search results

It’s been many years since I watched a GaryVee video. Since my 20s actually. I even read most of his books.

Anyway, this was a solid refresher: https://youtu.be/VMumHwVEfFs

Gary is still bullish on social media, re-framing it as “interest media,” which is the right re-framing with how the algorithms now work—less about who follows you—more about what topical niche you’re serving that’s of interest to a subset of users on platforms today.

By May of this year, Gary plans to publish around 400 posts per day on 7 platforms, across all of his handles. It looks like he’ll also be bringing back his daily YouTube vlog.

Feels like a revival of my youth when I was watching Gary relentlessly plug away at social media back then. Myself, I deviated and primarily focused on SEO, getting my sites to the top of Google organically, and it worked. I’m now married, living on two continents, but social media has also always worked for my businesses in supplementary ways, namely via Facebook with millions of followers (which landed me a meeting with Zuck in 2014), and later Instagram, with Instagram today being the core social platform we use, but there’s so much more—TikTok, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Telegram channels, WhatsApp channels, and X.

I tend to clean up who I’m subscribed to on YouTube, and admittedly, I unsubscribed from GaryVee many years ago, as I don’t need noise coming at me from every direction when I am no longer interested in the particular messaging.

That was no slight on Gary, it’s just that focus is a big key attribute in what I do, with the everlasting goal of simplifying my processes, in getting my outputs to be as refined as humanly possible. But after watching that video, I am interested in that new “interest media” angle he coined, thus Gary Vaynerchuk has managed to re-capture my interest in his messaging, so I’m back, re-subscribed to GaryVee, ready to study his next videos, upon utilising bits and parts of what he’s promoting, in applying those strategies with my own, upon deploying a new publishing plan on all the platforms that we traditionally call social media.

Gary, thanks for still being there for all of us entrepreneurs, all trying to make things happen, after all these years. You’re a real one.

Keep going!

The AirPods Max. One of my favourite Apple products.

Celebrating 9 years of Solespire with stronger infrastructure, sharper focus, human-first growth, and a continued commitment to building enduring digital media brands. https://www.solespire.com/newsroom/2026-founders-letter/

Les Parcs de Saint-Tropez – The Most Exclusive Private Estate Enclave on the French Riviera

https://www.thepinnaclelist.com/editorials/les-parcs-de-saint-tropez-the-most-exclusive-private-estate-enclave-on-the-french-riviera/

The Glass House at Sea: Inside the Luminous World of Superyacht FLEUR

https://www.thepinnaclelist.com/featured/the-glass-house-at-sea-inside-the-luminous-world-of-superyacht-fleur/

The Artemis II crew captured this beautiful, high-resolution photo with a Nikon D5 of our home planet, Earth, during their journey to the Moon, and now it’s my iPhone wallpaper.

Happy to report that the March 2026 Google core update is reflecting positive results for ThePinnacleList.com in Google Search Console.

With previous updates in recent years, we've had to make some adjustments. This time, no adjustments needed—we're being rewarded for high-quality content.

Additionally, we're seeing explosive growth in traffic from ChatGPT this year. We're really excited about this, as people progressively transition their searching habits to AI.