What should I do and learn in 2026?

I blinked and it's March. That's not entirely true, January was 100 years long, then February showed up, and at least here in Central Texas, that meant it was harshly cold for like 48 hours and now it's summer. "That's false Spring!" No... we don't have Spring here. Anyway, it's March and you might be asking yourself what you should actually be doing this year now that the year is rolling onward. You may have yearly or quarterly goals or metrics, but what are your personal development goals? And do you already feel behind? You may be asking yourself what you want to actually do this year. What do you want to learn? What skills do you want to level up? Never fear, let me provide you with my opinionated list of some of the tactics I recommend for navigating this. Use AI and have opinions about popular AI tools I want to be very clear that I don't think AI is appropriate everywhere , but I do think if you are in tech you need to have some kind of personal narrative around AI, particularly