12 Playlists. 12 Months. 0 Emails. Until Now.
12 months of music I made for myself. Now they're yours.
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If you're new here from my recent AI posts — welcome. Before all of that, this newsletter started as a monthly playlist series. It still is. Here's what you missed.
The last time I sent you a playlist was March 1st, 2025. I remember because I’d just gotten back from launching Pictor in Las Vegas, I was running on fumes, and I ended the email by promising the March playlist would “hopefully arrive before April.”
It is now almost April 2026.
Here’s what happened: I launched Pictor. I spoke at conferences. I kept building OutSnapped. I launched MirrorMemory. I fell deeper down the AI rabbit hole than I ever expected to. I basically lived inside a terminal for a year. The months blurred together so completely that I genuinely wish I’d had MirrorMemory running on my own life — just to remember what I did in June.
But every single month, without fail, I made a playlist.
Not for you. Not for this newsletter. For me. It’s the one ritual that survived the chaos. Every month I’d collect the songs that found me — new releases from favorite artists, the Shazams from random bars, the Spotify rabbit holes at 2am, the recommendations from friends, the old favorites that suddenly hit different — and I’d sequence them into a mix. Then I’d close the laptop and get back to work instead of writing the email.
So here they are. Twelve months of playlists I never got to send you. Think of this as one giant care package from a friend who’s been meaning to text you back.
I’m not going to write about each one this time. I’ll let the music speak for itself. Hit play on whatever month you want — start with the season, start with the most recent one, or just put March 2025 on and work your way forward. They’re all here.
March 2025
April 2025
May 2025
June 2025
July 2025
August 2025
September 2025
October 2025
November 2025
December 2025
January 2026
February 2026
The March 2026 playlist drops in a few days as its own post — back to the regular format with the full tracklist (in theory), the AI-generated cover art, and probably some rambling about whatever I’m building next.
Thanks for still being here. Now hit play 12 times.
— Nick