Jake Welch @jakewelch
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@dom you're right. I would love to get to where I don't look at a single screen from when I wake up at 7:30am to when I start working at 9:30am
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10 January 2025
An old colleague of Steph's is retiring and moving across the world. Her late husband was an art dealer and she has a few unsold paintings that she's offered to give to us if we drive out to pick them up on Long Island. So tomorrow we're making a day trip of it and going on an adventure.
8 January 2025
Today I’m inspired by people who are inspired by the mundane and feel inclined to document it. I created an are.na board to gather these types of archives together in one place.
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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
things i thought i'd miss, but i don't
- television
- microwave
- washer/dryer
- car
- religion
- dish washer
- closets
things i didn't think i'd miss, but i do
- school
- family
- desk
- job
- mountains
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
- relinquish all hate
- seek to understand everyone with compassion
- embrace silence
- honor things made with skill and craft
- allow troubles to flow over me like water
4 favorite things
- human connection
- figuring out how things work
- self-actualization through learning
- cultivating peace
words I learned while reading and have started noticing
- Pugnacious
- Pedulant
- Gerrulous
- Highfalutin
- Taciturn
- Fastidious
- Magnanimous/magnanimy
books that changed my perspective on something
- My Struggle: Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard –– on family and death
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner –– on techniques for recording ephemeral thought patterns
- The Stranger by Albert Camus –– on being impartial
- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust –– on memory and noticing beauty
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. –– on the effects WW2 still has on us
- If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino –– on storytelling
- My Struggle: Book 3 by Karl Ove Knausgaard –– on childhood and fragility of memory
- The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck –– on sacrifice and maintaining a moral code