Writer exploring culture, technology, life design, and the human experience. Writing at BarryFralick.com
Sunday Notes 4/7/24
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Greetings friends. Here are this week's notes. From me: A note on notes Many things I share here are meant to be useful not only to you but to me as well. I use this newsletter as a roadmap. I feel like I spent many years living a life that wasn’t a good fit. Carrying on with no vision of how I wanted my life to look and feel. In a way, Sunday Notes is a byproduct of a guy relentlessly trying to piece a puzzle together. I could be experiencing a garden-variety midlife crisis, and so on, but I digress, there is a point in telling you all of this. I think by developing self-awareness, learning, and connecting with others, you can create a personalized form of therapy. It's kind of what I do by reading, writing, and interacting with many of you . You can find little ways to alleviate the discomfort of living. Those things can be healthy and productive. They don’t have to be modern or traditional. The foundation is entertaining an element of uncertainty while letting all experiences teach and shape you. The result is becoming a more complete and competent human. Every experience, whether good or bad, has the potential to teach you something.
— A Twitter friend
-- Interesting: Boyle's Law -- Life Design: You can't hoard life Our clenching is never going to succeed in causing anything to become permanent. -- Productivity: What if you're already on top of things? is an interesting article exploring 'productivity debt' and stating the case for starting each day at 'zero balance' making every task accomplished an improvement to your life. -- Simplicity: Out of Sight is Not Out of Mind -- A quote: Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.
― Søren Kierkegaard
-- Lastly, why not make a Reuben Sandwich this week? That is it for this week's edition. See you next week. Barry |
Barry Fralick
Writer exploring culture, technology, life design, and the human experience. Writing at BarryFralick.com
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