Jake Welch @jakewelch

https://jakewel.ch, Brooklyn

Leave me a note ⤑ ourworldoftext.com/jakewelch ◇──◆──◇──◆──◇──◆──◇──◆──◇──◆──◇──◆──◇──◆──◇──◆──◇──◆──◇──◆──◇──◆──◇──◆──◇──◆──◇ 3 Nov 2025 Got way too drunk Friday, woke up sick on Saturday. Spent the day recovering and playing Vintage Story with my friends in UT. Sunday Steph’s cousin ran in the NY marathon so of course we went to support. I’m not a runner but it gets me emotional. Thousands of people coming together to accomplish something difficult, to support and encourage. Birthday party for two friends in the evening with delicious carrot cake, my favorite ... Something I struggle with as a designer is balancing my love for the internet, programming, and technology, while also holding onto my love for history, craft, and tradition. I've been obsessed with this project from Cotton Design because they developed it around exactly this ideology. I've been racking my mind to come up with similar ideas of my own. It's rare that something inspires me so much. https://cotton.design/work/eternal-research https://tool.eternalresearch.com/
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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
  • twitter
  • 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

5 favorite things

  • human connection
  • figuring out how things work
  • self-actualization through learning
  • feeling zen
  • ? – still deciding...

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 how to appraoch 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