Chad Kohalyk

Screen capture from insight timer showing 499 consecutive days of mediation

Tomorrow will be a nice #meditation milestone

Email visibility can be limited. We tend to try and have as much communication out in the open as possible. Since others can see your monologue, it can spark all sorts of serendipitous moments that you just can’t get with email.

god I need an editor for my social media posts 🤦‍♂️

OMG. While huffing Mt Royal a guy walks by with his GF. I turned to my wife: "That dude LOOKED and SOUDNED just like Justin Trudeau… but there is no way that was JT, people would be trying to talk to him right?"

Turns out… it WAS! And the woman? Katy frickin Perry

www.tmz.com/2025/07/29/k...

https://stephango.com/ramblings

This from @stephango.com | @kepano@mastodon.social is similar to the #monologue channels we used at Fission. We didn’t do the strict threading tho. You could leave a note “on a person’s desk” without notifying them, useful as we were across 5 continents.

AI is a Floor Raiser, not a Ceiling Raiser - Elroy An AI assistant that remembers and sets goals

Good article. Instead of trying to build products promising to replace humans with "superintelligence", consider the *actual* shape of language models and their capabilities. We have a great floor-raiser here that can be applied to bridge capability gaps.

elroy.bot/blog/2025/07...

In downtown Kingston there is a bar called The Toucan where 19 years ago me and my friends would go every Thursday for “Grad Student Night”.

I am here now with my children 🤯

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After one last trip to Notre Dame, we left Montreal and drove to Kingston, Ontario. We are staying in my old neighborhood from grad school, and tonight will eat at the restaurant where we held our wedding banquet in 2006! 😱 🎉 👰‍♀️💗🤵‍♂️

Amazing to be back here with our children 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒

Why BrainRot: https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/08/03/why-brainrot.html

we built this city on

pro to cols

Getting close to nature

I will tell you one way to get your kids off their phones for 2 hours!

Wow 🤩 this show is amazing!! The stuff they do is scary! I was stress eating my popcorn 🍿

Chad standing outside some circus tents with a signed saying LUZIA

Now for some Cirque du Soleil 🎪

Chef selfie in front of the hotel

The hotel from a slightly different angle showing more of the expansions

2 last morning shots of le Château Frontenac before we get on the train to Montréal. Over the past 100 years it has been expanded 5 times, taking the room count from 160 to over 600. In the 90s they almost lost their 5 ⭐️ rating for lack of a pool and spa so they built one! 🏊 🧖‍♀️

Chad in front of the Château Frontenac mail box

Chad stands beside a Red Door in Lower Quebec

We GOBLIN’d it up in Quebec today #kdrama

Another lovely evening at the Fairmont ale Château Frontenac in Quebec City. Our last night here.

#travel #quebec

Navigating the unfamiliar campus of Laval to pick my daughter up from her university for the first time. So THIS is what it feels like to be that awkward/proud parent 😅

Je me souviens • Buttondown Bonjour! 👋 Comment ça va? I am writing you from the capital of la belle province: Quebec City. We have been vacationing in Quebec for the last week. (I have...

Phew! So tired. Almost midnight here. But I sent out my monthly newsletter, a collection of interesting links and also my writing 🙃 with a personal note that usually contains some sort of insight but this month just a smattering of my bad French. Have a read!

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St Lawrence River 360° #Quebec

Evaluating AI How to think about vendors, technology, and power

Here's my personal model for evaluating AI. werd.io/evaluating-ai/

Re:filtered #19: No saints needed Two new projects, and a job.

Thanks to @pboehler.net for the shoutout to #ProtocolsForPublishers in his newsletter talking about service journalism. See him at #HOPE16 and at PfP next month as we all continue to gather technologists and journalists to forge a better tomorrow

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Motherfucking wind farms…

More talk today about leaving Substack. You should do it. If you’re trying to do local news, head over to www.tinynewsco.org and apply to join the @tinynewscollective.bsky.social. We’ll get you set up with Ghost, fiscal sponsorship, and a community of support. The best deal in journalism.

Yeah like the Sleeping Giants/Check My Ads 🤔 But do payment processors actually CARE about their brand image like advertisers do? Basically an oligopoly

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s pioneering generative AI chatbot, is dominant in the U.S., but for many students in Colombia, Meta’s AI upgrades have become the go-to bots. Meta has a controversial agreement with telecommunications companies that restricts some users on cheaper data plans to using specific apps and sites including those from Meta.

Reminder that in some places, Facebook = internet (and now ai)

Jeez! Really hope everything is okay 🤞

Chad at the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac

Long shot down the Rue Saint-Louis which looks very European

Some delicious savoury crepes

Saint François de Laval Monument with the steeple crosses of Notre-Dame de Québec Basilica-Cathedral all in silhouette

Crossed the plains of Quebec to the capital city, founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain and the only walled city north of Mexico. We checked in at the hotel, did a walkaround, and ate some crepes. Tomorrow we reunite with our older daughter who has been here 5 weeks studying Français!

Since threading got borked on this post, re-adding this here:

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Chad selfie in front of a conicle turret topped with a weathervane. He is making some sort of “isn’t this fancy” stank face expression with one raised eyebrow

On the rooftop of the place we are staying and we got one of these tower thingies. Le Fancy!

Gonna go here for Elevensies tomorrow maps.app.goo.gl/vyDooTzkWksv...