25 september 2025
Work today has been productive/rewarding. I've had minimal fallbacks to sadness. I've got 25 more minutes until I'm off.
I keep saying I'll sleep after work, and I never do. But that's probably good. Speaking of sleep, apart from having some back problems that woke me up a couple of times, I slept pretty okay.
I hope I find some cool weekend activities that'll really help me feel better. I don't mind taking an Uber downtown now.
I just got the Thursday newsletter from Newel of Knowledge. The message of this week was: The easiest way to improve your life is to write down your principles and stick to them. And I have to agree - I'm going to think very hard about what my principles are, then write them down and make sure I tick off each one as I do something that moves me toward that principle, or something that is guided by that principle. I guess one principle would be that I've satisfied as many of them as possible, to ensure I grow for myself and not for others.
A chunk of the newsletter about the importance of these principles is copied below:
"But most importantly, your principles resonate with you.
Without them, you’re lost; pulled in every direction by the infinite thoughts, emotions and external events that conspire to throw you off balance.
Without them you don't know how to act; instead you're enticed by other people's values, doomed to follow their footsteps because "why not? Everyone else is doing x".
Principles are like a lighthouse in a storm: when the weather changes and the sea gets rough, you can’t rely on every wave pattern or prediction. But the lighthouse is a fixed point that keeps you oriented and safe.
The unprincipled life is not worth living."
And this does indeed hold true! I'll get to it, then. I have written down the basics of principles before, but I do not (yet) have the discipline to have them committed to memory and to follow them, or to stop doing something that breaches my principles.
While reading my feels from days prior, I noticed a mistake: the platform is netsapiens, not CallSapiens. The tunas feels editorial board regrets this error.