Absurd? Yes.

Turns out we did a season.

I cannot believe we have completed the first season of Dear Future Overlords.

When I started this project, I did not know exactly what it would become. I knew only that I wanted a place where curiosity could stretch out, where humor and philosophy could sit side by side without apologizing to each other, and where thinking out loud was not treated as a flaw. Somehow, against all reasonable odds and several algorithmic indifferences, that idea found people.

So first, thank you. Truly.

To every reader, listener, commenter, quiet lurker, and subscriber who showed up this year, you made this season possible. You shared posts, replied to notes, argued kindly in the margins, and occasionally told me that something here helped you think or feel a little differently. That is the entire point. I am deeply grateful that you trusted this strange little corner of the internet with your attention.

Over the course of the season, we wandered through a lot of conceptual terrain. We camped out with hashtags and poked at how language shapes identity. We talked about emotional support ghosts and the things we carry long after we pretend we have let them go. We defended dumb things with suspiciously serious arguments. We went intentionally brain shopping and examined why humans collect ideas the way others collect souvenirs. We watched falling leaves of social connection and traced how relationships thin, change, and sometimes return in unexpected ways.

Running underneath all of it was the same thread. How humans make meaning. How we protect ourselves from complexity. How humor becomes a coping mechanism, a bridge, and occasionally a shield. And how thinking carefully does not have to be joyless or sterile. It can be playful, absurd, and deeply human all at once.

Before we close the book on this season entirely, we have one more stop.

Our upcoming holiday special brings us to a front porch conversation about Southern comfort. Not the food, though that helps, but the idea. The rituals, the pauses, the inherited ways we learn how to rest, reflect, and survive the colder parts of the year. It is slower, warmer, and intentionally a little softer than our usual philosophical mischief. So be on the look out for that,

After that, we rest.

Season Two will return in mid January with renewed energy, sharper questions, and yes, more absurd philosophy. There are new ideas waiting, new threads to pull, and new ways to poke at the human condition with a raised eyebrow and a kind smile.

Thank you for being here for the first season of Dear Future Overlords. I cannot wait to see where we wander next.

Help season two be that much bigger.