Dec 23, 2025
14 Ways Your Board of Advisors Can Help You Keep Your Sanity Over Christmas
Hey all,
We’ve been busy over in Kin HQ, squashing bugs and working on feedback as quick as we can - apologies for the radio silence.
But, given that we’re deep into the festive season, we wanted to share some playful ways your personal board of advisors can support you over the holidays.
They’ll open directly in the Kin app. so check them out below.
1. Strategic Gift-Giving When You Forgot About Secret Santa🎁
In case you forgot (you’re welcome if we reminded you), your logical advisor can suggest a great gift that matches your secret santa in no time at all. For next year, remember you can always set a reminder in Kin 😉
2. “Your Family vs. My Family” Negotiations 👪
It’s never a fun topic, but it’s all too common. If you’re struggling to balance festive family traditions and expectations from both your family and your partner’s, consider talking to your personal relationship advisor.
3. Why Am I Arguing About Politics With People I See Once a Year? 🤔
Your Values advisor can help you prepare some “safe” subjects, and some quick topic-changers to steer you away from politics, all tailored around the conversations your loved ones like to have (and which ones you don’t).
4. Managing the Energy Cost of Explaining What I Actually Do 🙄
We all have someone who asks what we do every single year, and understands exactly none of the times we explain it. Your personal energy and pacing advisor can work with you on the most energy-efficient ways to do it, while helping you schedule in psychological recovery time.
5. How to Fake Loving a Present You Hate 😶
As weird or ridiculous as the gift is, your loved one’s heart is often in the right place - so don’t break it. Chat to your personal social advisor about how to hide your true feelings and avoid breaking the Christmas peace.
6. “Why Aren’t You Married Yet?” Defense Playbook 😬
Another staple of the holidays here - we’ve pre-prompted your personal relationships advisor through this link to help you think about who might ask you a variation of this question, and how you’ll respond without trapping yourself in an awkward lecture.
7. My Drunk Cousin Wants to Pitch Me His Startup Idea 📈
You know the cousin we mean. Your personal career and logic advisor is on hand not only to prepare responses, but to help you evaluate your uncle’s latest scheme, and get back to him with some useful pointers without requiring you to completely abandon your festive spirit.
8. Post-Christmas Dinner Food Coma: Rest or Weakness? 🍽️
The inevitable Christmas Day laze is a sacred part of the holiday for many of us - but that doesn’t mean it always comes without guilt or worry. Your personal energy and pacing advisor can help you justify explore your annual food coma, and whether it really is the rest you need (spoiler: it probably is).
9. My Cousin Just Bought a House and I’m Still Renting 🥴
How did they do it? No one knows. If you fear you feel an existential crisis coming on, reach out to your personal Values advisor- she’s got a knack for putting things back in perspective, and helping you reinforce your goals and self-worth.
10. Should I Reply to This Investor Email on Christmas Day? 💻
The boundaries between work and home keep blurring (which we have a whole article on). Your personal career and logic advisor can help you decide whether that message in your notification bar is worth letting work interrupt the festive cheer.
11. Escape Plan: My Uncle’s 45-Minute Crypto Monologue 🏃♀️
Getting cornered by monologues is another holiday staple - and we’ve pre-prompted your personal social advisor through this link to help you identify who’s most likely to trap you in a ramble, and build an escape plan if your evasion efforts fail. (You can thank us later).
12. “My Mom’s Friend’s Son Also Does That” 🤓
Do they really? Do you know university IT support is in fact very different to an AI startup?
Again, we’ve prepped your personal social advisor to help you figure out how to navigate that situation when it happens without insults being hurled or sanity being lost.
13. Easy Festive Games People Will Actually Play 🃏
There’s nothing worse than a silent room of family and friends on Christmas, where you’re just waiting for someone to start an argument about a long-dead politician. Consider speaking to your personal social advisor about who’s in the room, and what simple games like charades or hangman, might keep them entertained and civil.
14. “I’m Not Hungover, I’m Recalibrating My Circadian Rhythm” 😴
And of course, no festive period is complete without using being drunk as an excuse to rest, or needed to explain how you just need to rest when you’re actually drunk.
Your personal energy and pacing advisor can help you polish up your script here, with much better lines than the title we used - and all tailored to the way you and your family speak to each other.
Happy Holidays from the KIN team!
Above all though, we want to wish you a merry Christmas and a joyful festive period from myself and the entire Kin team.
You’ve supported us through Kin’s biggest year of life to date, and we couldn’t be more proud or appreciative of the community we’ve created. We especially appreciate those of you who took the time to read to the bottom 😉
The whole KIN team is doing our best to make Kin even better for you - though we’ll be taking a small break for the holidays.
If you need us, we’ll be keeping an eye on [email protected], our official Discord server, and any bug reports that come in. But we’ll also be getting some rest.
So, keep giving us feedback, keep using Kin, and keep looking after yourselves. Get some rest, too
We’ll see you in the new year!
With love,
The KIN Team
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