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Clean slate on my fish
I've always resonated with the concept that we exist for long after we're gone through our influence. That because of this, nobody truly dies. How we interact with the world leaves an an indelible mark that carries on and branches out indefinitely. Think like the butterfly effect. Recently I realized that our past selves still exist, too, right now, in the memories of those from our past. There are people out there who may have known you really well at one point in time, but haven't spoken to you in years. They still remember you as you were, they might even still hold onto the same feelings about you that they formed all those years ago. In some ways I find that comforting, and in some ways, terrifying. But I also find it interesting that fragments of our existence are scattered around everyone. We aren't just islands, but archipelagos.
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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 Thursday, September 10, 2026