Jake Weidokal

I got up early to mow this morning and was fascinated by the snail trails in the morning dew on my neighbor’s fence.

I’m really starting to notice how much my mental outlook changes based on how consistently I’m exercising.

Do you remember when software was expensive to make?

I just completed my first Field Notes pocket journal.

TIL: A 1997 episode of Pokémon sent 685 people to the hospital with seizures.

Finished reading: Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Common, Oscar Levy 📚 This was a hard read that took me months to work through.

This paragraph hit hard this morning.

I’ve heard tuna described as “chicken of the sea”, but why have I never heard anyone refer to pistachios as “clam of the tree”?

I updated my Uses page.

What I am up to now.

My chipotle order has changed.

I am again in a season of diapers and burp cloths.

I was just working on my laptop outside when I saw a big fuzzy jumping spider on the umbrella above me.

I am elated that I can start my days on the back deck again!

It was a gorgeous morning for a run.

“I’ve wasted a lot of time journaling on “problems” when I just needed to eat breakfast sooner, do 10 push-ups, or get an extra hour of sleep.

My goodness.

I came across conventionalcomments.org yesterday and love the idea.

“Creating the conditions for success is a very different project than finding a heroic move that saves the day.”

I love that AI doesn’t judge me when I send it messages like: CAn yuo kep it shorteR?

“You are not simply your own possession to torture and mistreat.

“The Internet is a novelty machine that pulls us away from age-old wisdom.

My deermons lurk in the shadows of these morning runs.

Hot take.

“Few people ask from books what books can give us.