A minor change to The Weekly Note starts this week. I started the Weekly Note to deliver the week's Daily Notes to those who want them but don't want a daily email. We get too many emails as it is, so I was happy to send them all in one. Not wanting to make the Weekly Note just about me, I decided to curate some additional content to make the email more valuable, and that is where the change is coming. For the foreseeable future, the Weekly Note will return to its original purpose —...

This morning I walked to our local coffee shop to work from there for a couple of hours—it takes about thirty minutes to get there. On the way home, I decided not to finish the podcast I'd been listening to on the way there. Instead, I walked home with just my thoughts and stayed present with the nature around me. Sure, I could have kept listening to the podcast to be “productive” and make the most of my time, but I felt it was a better use of thirty minutes to just be. When I first started...

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” -Marcus Aurelius We often jump out of bed, grab our phones, and head into the day. It would do us a lot of good to start a little slower and think about what Marcus Aurelius wrote long ago. See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC