I'm picking up an old worldbuilding trick I used a long time ago. I've got a folder in Scrivener called Lore where I write flash fiction establishing little bits of the world.
It's word count, potential foundations for full stories, and helps fill out the details mainline stories are built on. #AmWriting
@yatchi "Thanks, news, you've been a big help with this extremely not actionable information that only further muddies an already confused topic!"
This is why I get all my news from furry podcasts.
The Kimoyo Beads are close to something I've been trying to think of for a far-future general purpose portable personal computing device. My thing will be very different, but it's put me on the right path.
Something like what Google tried to do with Project Ara, but it works and is practical.
You might think "but that's unrealistic! Surely they would replace it by then!"
Friend, let me tell you something. The first Mars colonies in 100 years are going to have a grizzled young COBOL apprentice keeping things running. They're going to know C++ and Golang and Rust, and your web portal will still use Ruby and Rails.