The 25 Extremely Practical Recommendations That Made My 2025
Top hits!
Writing this series has been one of my favorite parts of Long Live this year. Putting my extremely practical genes to good use. The following list is my best of the best—recs I adopted this year that made all the difference. And most of them I’ve never shared before :)
What? You thought I wouldn’t mention the Brick? But my specific recommendation here is creating different modes. We don’t need to be locked out of EVERY app ALL the time. I have one for the weekends and one for before/after work.
As an experiment, I started using blue ink. And then I starting using my official pen of the year—this one from Sharpie. If you favor a bulkier ink, you’ll love it, too.




