Goosebump events 💎 Issue #71
Goosebump events 💎 Issue #71
Plus: patterns for better homes, how to choose a name, and one more way to journal.
Hey pals👋
What’s up? 👨👩👧👦
🧸 I’m not turning this newsletter into only baby-or-parenting-tips-stuff rest assured, but I’ve been thinking that seeing your kid coming out of your wife’s womb is a paradox in some ways. It’s such a monumental event that you only experience once, or twice (on average) in your life, in contrast with the “forever” of your relationship as a parent to them.
🎄 This reminded me of Paul Graham’s “you only have 8 Christmas with your kids with them believing in the magic of it”. I mean, there are plenty of favorite moments and activities we do that we never think might be for the last time. We never go to our favorite band concert thinking “I will only see them once more in my life”, or when we travel to that place we never go “I only have 6 more trips like this”.
🚀 I think the trick might be on looking for goosebumps (the thing you get every time you play ‘Rolling in the Deep’ by Adele). When we experience something that affects us on a physical level like that maybe it’s one of these single-digit events in a lifetime and we owe it to ourselves to recognize it and fully live it.
And here are the best things I found on Internet this week.
New to me 💡
Ten Essential Patterns of Home | 4 min read
🏡 Ever since issue #60 I’ve been fascinated with how much there is to designing a house beyond dimensions, number of rooms, and sun exposure. I’m oversimplifying, but still, I know how little I understand of it. Enter this concept of “patterns”, which I was already familiar with from software development (which in turn were originated from architecture patterns, yey, the full circle), that allow us to better encapsulate what works in a solution and transfer it to other contexts and problems. Yup, right when the housing market is so favorable for us to be picky like this…
🛏 “How we arrive on a site and how we enter the house and move through it have profound influences on our sense of the building as home. The entire sequence of movement through and around the house determines whether we feel welcomed, invited to move farther, or encouraged to linger at a threshold, settled and comfortable within a space.”
This Is the Journaling Template for People Who Don’t Have Time to Journal | 3 min read
✍ Journaling is weird. It’s that type of activity that I feel I would appreciate doing but when it came to starting I never felt that it would be organic, or with visible benefits. I know I’m judging something without trying it, but maybe what I need is some simplified and uncompromising version of the process like this one to give it a go.
📖 “Apply this framework to journaling and you’ll be forced to think about your behavior — what was it that you did that day that worked or didn’t? For example, maybe you folded your laundry while listening in on a Zoom seminar. This kept you from scrolling through Twitter, so you successfully paid attention to the meeting and ticked off a household chore.”
The Builder’s High | 3 min read
🏗️ When was the last time you created something and how good did it feel afterward?
🎨 “Turn off those notifications, turn your phone over, turn on your favorite music, stare at your blank slate and consider what you might build. In that moment of consideration, you’re making an important decision: create or consume?”
The Story of Your Name | 6 min watch
👶 We chose the name of our son after he was born. It was a decision between two candidate names and we picked one after taking a good look at him. I also watched this video on that day.
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Filipe