Jake Welch @jakewelch supporter fish

I feel like giving you things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51uFDSLPA8o My mom visited, I went to Philly for the first time. I was surprised by how empty if felt there • To usher in autumn and month of October, I've been watching a lot of classic scary movies. So far this month I've seen The Birds, Rosemary's Baby, and The Haunting. Next up: Misery, Jaws, Suspiria, Blue Velvet, The Wicker Man, and Donnie Darko. • My latest obsession with radio is inspiring me to build a physical radio which I can load with stations discovered on radio.garden and change through with preset buttons. I had a similar idea to make an NTS radio a few months ago, but they cme out with the Atonemo NTS player and it suddenly felt like a less worthwhile endeavor. Now listening to https://panafricanspacestation.org.za/ • Ever since switching to radio for most of my music, listening to music any other way feels lonely • Invention does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos • Discovered this are.na channel that's archiving online radios. The rabbit hole is deep... https://www.are.na/niko-zpacgzmn6xq/online-radio-4w_xnah9ofq Now listening to 8 Ball Radio here in NYC https://8ballradio.nyc When I was in high school I DJed for our school radio station, KPGR. It was an amazing little cultural pocket of music, art, and film lovers, and it really set me on the path for the rest of my life. Sometimes I dream of being a radio DJ again
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True goodness is like water.

  • Bringing benefit and giving life to the 10,000 things.
  • It doesn’t compete but like the Tao
  • Immediately flows to the lowest place.
  • Everyone else always wants to be first
  • But the wise only want to be last,
  • To live on solid ground,
  • To think deeply,
  • To be gentle and kind,
  • To speak with honesty,
  • To govern with peace and order,
  • To work with skill,
  • To act at only the best time

books that changed me

  • News From Nowhere by William Morris
  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkein
  • My Struggle: Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

ideas for projects

  • Physical NTS radio built with a Raspberry Pi and thrifted radio body
  • Web archive for random 3D scans of things I find around the city
  • A digital/physical guestbook, re-build my pen plotter, andhook it up to the internet to let people draw stuff
  • On-the-fly label printer for printing QR codes from restroomarchive.com, tag the actual restrooms with them
  • Physical Raspberry Pi based point and shoot dither cam

Considering the universal

  • Birth, life and death
  • Time, memory, and bridging the past to the present
  • God, sprituality, the search for meaning
  • Human to human connection
  • Human to nature connection
  • Beauty
  • Morality
  • Aspiration
  • Power, freedom, and opression

ways i stay grounded

  • keep a morning routine
  • read difficult yet rewarding novels
  • avoid algorithms
  • sacrifice comfort
  • write out observations
  • consider how things are connected
  • notice how big and open the sky is
  • resist being cruel
  • seek to understand with compassion
  • embrace silence
  • honor things made with skill and craft
  • allow troubles to flow over me like water

5 things I live for

  • connecting with people
  • figuring out how things work
  • learning
  • peace
  • authenticity

Last updated on Tuesday, October 20, 2026