Weekly Newsletter
Tag: brick by brick
Week #20, 2025
The hardest work you can do is the work of controlling the five and a half inches between your ears. It's difficult, thankless work.
Week #19, 2025
Week #19 of 2025 has arrived... Astronomers have discovered chemical compounds in the atmosphere of a planet 124 light years away that may hint at biological activity. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? Nearly every part of that sentence will blow your mind if you let it. Astronomers: Humans can actually study the universe. Chemical compounds: Humans can understand the building blocks of life. Atmosphere of a planet: Humans understand what an atmosphere is and what it means for us and other life in the universe. 124 light years away: The light that is arriving from this planet today is older than airplanes. Biological activity: Imagine for a minute what it would mean for humanity to...
Week #18, 2025
Let yourself be overwhelmed by the beauty of existence and barf that overwhelm out on those around you. Life is too short not to be amazed.
Week #5, 2025
The thing about cycles is this. While inevitable and heroically beautiful, they are simultaneously tragic and sucky.
Week #4, 2025
Week #4 of 2025 has arrived. The polar vortex has sent super cold weather to the Great Plains. My hands hurt it's so cold. The polar vortex is cyclical. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? Cycles. Everything cycles. And yet, cycles don't exist in a vacuum. We are imprisoned in the cycles of: the universe, the earth, human history, our country, our culture, our politics, our family, etc... but we aren't imprisoned by those cycles. And while as individuals we can't remove ourselves from the cycles we find ourselves in, our actions do affect the trajectory and duration of the cycles. You do have agency. However, it is often not the agency that...
Week #49, 2024
Every person, every thing, every idea in our lives weighs on us in measure to how dear we hold it. Some are worth carrying forever, some only for a while, and some were never worth carrying.
Week #45, 2024
The point is in the struggle. The lessons are in the struggle. The wisdom is in the struggle.
Week #44, 2024
Strive to spend significantly less than what you make. The things that truly make you happy probably aren’t that expensive.
Week #43, 2024
Be the kind of person that it is easy to be friends with. Be generous, be helpful. Invest time in your friends, especially as you get past your 20's.
Week 41, 2024
Decide what is "most important", find a way to keep that "front of mind" and then DO IT.