Throughout my life, I’ve always had a go-to answer to the question: “Tell us something unique about yourself.”

Back in 1979, when I was born, fathers helping out in prenatal care was quite new. So new, in fact, that Canada’s national broadcaster, the CBC, decided to dedicate a three part series to the subject. But to do that, they needed an example — a couple embracing these new methods on the journey towards childbirth.

Enter Murray and Maureen, who graciously gave up their time (and some of their dignity!) to play along. You see where this is going…

By the third installment, it was time to go into labor. The television camera peered through a delivery room window to see the doctor pick me up and wash me off.

This video lived on a beta tape for decades, and was only recently gifted to me by my sister, who had found it while digitizing a huge library of home videos.

Anyway, for posterity, here it is. (And enjoy the 70s fashion!)

My YouTube algorithm served up a video on the history of the Las Vegas strip earlier today — catnip for somebody who loves history documentaries. So I pressed play while I was puttering around the house getting things done.

It didn’t take long to capture my attention, though, because near the beginning the “host” says the video is made with AI. Indeed, the entire YouTube channel, Thomas Relives History, uses old photographs and other material to create high resolution video and bring the past to life. What an excellent use-case!

The channel sells itself this way:

This channel is about reliving the past through visual reconstruction. Using modern tools to step back into earlier worlds — not to reinterpret history, but to experience it from within. From the street level, the workplace, the quiet moments between major events.

Thomas Relives History goes beyond famous landmarks and well-worn timelines. It focuses on environments, processes, and situations that are rarely shown in detail: how places functioned, how moments felt, and how history was lived before it was ever recorded as history.

The goal is simple — to make the past feel closer, more human, and more tangible.

No spectacle. No shortcuts. Just history, relived.

The channel is still quite new – having launched in January 2026 – with fewer than 7,000 subscribers as I write this. Pop over and see what you think.

I suspect many others might copy this idea, and soon.

Like many others, I’ve been deep inside AI world for the past several months. The launch of Claude Cowork, in particular, alongside the proliferation of MCP servers has opened up all kinds of potential. I hope to share some of these ideas in the future.

For now, here’s a simple daily news roundup that I find helpful: the AI Daily Brief.

I pay and subscribe to a few dozens newsletters – most on Substack – and subscribe to even more RSS feeds that focus on what’s happening in AI. The problem: I don’t have enough time, every day, to go through all that material in addition to all the work-related stuff I need to read. So I created an agent to compile a summary of the most important items.

To do so, I gave it access to my email and Substack subscriptions, as well as my folder of RSS feeds on Inoreader. So I’ve already curated the sources — AI is taking that and compiling a summary of the most important developments. I don’t want to miss anything, so I also asked the agent to do a general news search. Lastly, I provided it with a selection of tools I use (software like Obsidian, DEVONthink, and Craft) and asked it to share any new AI-related news or workflows that have emerged using these tools.

The result is an email that I get every morning, and a corresponding web page that I’m now sharing with the world here. It will publish at 9am daily Hong Kong time.

As always, I’m open to thoughts and suggestions to make this even better. So drop me a line, and let me know what you think.