Best of 2025

The life I wanted to build for myself and others started to actualize as a result of the changes I made the year prior. 2024 was a total remodel of my habits and behaviors and 2025’s primary goal was to just stick to the plan. I literally pains me to admit: I spent most of the year trying not to “break the chain” and “trusting the process”. Aside from a pair of self-help cliches sharing MVP duties during my 2025, the year was overwhelmingly positive.

I proposed to my longtime girlfriend (she said yes!). I landed a new job. I got to spend time with the people I love. I built a new bike and went bikepacking for the first time. I made a few new friends and reconnected with old ones. We’ve hosted dinner parties and we got to travel a handful of times.

Best Trips

• Portland, ME & Cape Cod, MA
• Waikiki, HI

Best Restaurant

• Twelve - Portland, ME

Best New Restaurants

• Pink Flamingo - Baltimore, MD
• The Duchess - Baltimore, MD

Best Movie

• Yi Yi

Best New Movie

• Weapons

Best Book

• 80/20 Principle - Richard Koch

Best Album

• Surround - Hiroshi Yoshimura

Best New Albums

• The Art of Loving - Olivia Dean
• Never Enough - Turnstile
• A Deeper Life - Chaos in the CBD
• Equus Asinus - Men I Trust

Best Concert

• Castle Rat @ Ottobar