Jake

Defined possibly like: simple fun, accessible to the most amount of people possible. Simple game loops with natural variation, but runway for expansion and updates. Longevity can be built naturally through the gameplay loop, community, the economy, or all three.… More >

I think often times nowadays, likely trained into us through highly stimulating devices, there is this tendency to try and do two things at once. To listen to our favorite music and work, to eat healthy and unhealthy at the… More >

Questions don’t always need answers, and problems don’t always need solving. So long as the uncertainty doesn’t impede on your life, letting things be and giving them time is an important means of reaching an answer that resonates, that feels… More >

Modern society wishes to reject silence. Every public space features loud pop music. Every pedestrian walks with headphones. Newer forms of high quality audio like podcasts and audio books present themselves as “more productive” listening, but they perform a similar… More >

Modern life seems full of leisure, but its leisure of the wrong kind. Instead of going on walks in nature, reading, resting, spending time with family, we sit down and watch movies and TV shows, drink, gorge on sweet foods,… More >

These are a series of principles that I wrote with little to no editing in a moment of inspiration in December, 2025. They are written in no order of importance. Instead of Apple Notes, I’ll store these here as a… More >

I’ve recently been working on a a Roblox game that was incredibly exciting to me for the first few weeks. Then, in the past week, it’s felt stale, uninspiring, and hard to work on–or so I thought. Then today I… More >

Modern humans wear makeup and suits, drive cars and fly planes, and make YouTube videos. We’ve come a long way from our hunter gatherer ancestors. But all of this technology and these norms represent at most the past few hundred… More >

In our evolution, we’ve evolved to think ahead to the next days food or hunt, and or the following days weather. But our minds are not meant to think in long timelines of 5, 10, 30 years. It’s not just… More >

You don’t oppose desire. What you oppose is the anxiety and suffering that desire brings. Because desire is guaranteed suffering, it’s important to keep your desires limited, ideally to only one at any given point in time. Allow that one… More >

Modern self help cultivates the notion that you should strive to be happy. Happiness is presented in culture as something you achieve or get, available on the other side of accomplishment. But it’s in fact the opposite, happiness is that… More >

Right now I’m developing a few Roblox games. I’ve completely found my love and passion for this once again. I’m working with great developers and people that genuinely make the process so enjoyable. As I’ve been creating, I find myself… More >

Do the same things but less anxious, stressed, and more calm. Do hard things. The thing you don’t want to do is almost always good for you and where you find the most growth. Don’t care what others think. It’s… More >

In any given experience, there is fact and reality, your memories and feelings, and learnings and wisdom. The negative aspects of an experience are easy to focus on and shallow; they’re low hanging fruit. The positive aspects are much harder… More >

Don’t get mad at something by not giving it energy and thus making it a problem. Except for pain, all problems are of the mind and your own creation, so you can rid yourself of problems by recognizing that they… More >

Talking through your issues is one thing. Making your problems those of others is something else. Don’t let yourself pawn off your issues to others. Talk through things as needed, but ultimately take agency over your life and be the… More >

Some people don’t like you, and that’s ok. Imagine the struggle of getting the whole world to like you. By then you’d probably hate yourself! Present yourself utterly and completely honest to the world; some will favor you and some… More >

Stop looking at the comment section; ignore these opinions by not seeing them in the first place. They don’t concern you. Form your own thoughts and perspective as you see something for the first time. Don’t let your thoughts become… More >

Expect nothing in working towards your goals today. Expect nothing today but expect everything in a year. Be completely fine and even happy with regression and poor performance. You’ll have tomorrow and the day after. If you try and do… More >

Don’t search for weaknesses to improve in. Double down on what you’re good at. If you focus on what you need to improve in, you’ll always be bad at everything and good at nothing. Because the world is so rich… More >

When your world gets busy, it’s easy to think the world is ending. Not just yours, but everybody’s. You change your mood, change how you treat others, turtle up and become unattractive to those around you. Things are almost never… More >

The only difference between cheap goods and expensive goods is a combination of materials and marketing. Don’t let expensive goods sit on a shelf and collect dust if you wouldn’t do the same for cheap goods. Treat them the exact… More >

Feelings linger. Tasks linger. Everything you don’t address that is important to your own life lingers. Address these items not by ignoring them but by at a minimum coming to term with what’s infront of you. Write down how you… More >

The simplest thing you can say to someone is ‘Hi’. It may appear and feel insignificant, but its a memorable and easy way to show those you care about that you see them. It costs you nothing, and means a… More >

Every new experience in life is an open opportunity for you to learn, improve, and change how you go about living. If you allow yourself to, you can learn faster than anybody around you by realizing the wealth of learnings… More >

Rejection definitely hurts. You like somebody and build narratives in your mind that maybe they might like you how you like them. The worst thing you could ever do though — in spite of how scary it might be —… More >

Make goals and discard of goals in an unforgiving manner. For the goals you currently want to accomplish, reflect daily on them. Score your performance and watch as you begin to see which goals last — these are ones actually… More >

Always be exactly who you are in every moment. Don’t care what other people think. If you do, you’re saying that other people’s thoughts of you have merit and further underlying truth. To change who you are for other people… More >

Where should we eat for dinner? What will I order off the menu? What will I wear today? Unserious questions that don’t deserve serious thoughts, serious energy, or serious amounts of time. If there’s multiple opinions, be the agreeable one.… More >

If you don’t want to do something, don’t do it. Don’t think your future self will be any different than you presently, either. You only have so much time in your one life. Define what’s interesting to you, which always… More >

It feels virtuous to care about the news because it goes beyond the self. Stories–never happy–almost exclusively cover some kind of tragedy and evoke your tendency towards compassion. How could you not care about catastrophes? Have compassion, but recognize that… More >

Be the best by spending all your time on one thing. Be great by spending all your time on a few things. Be ok by spending all your time on many things. Be nothing by doing everything, More >

Outwardly facing, the artisan with his dream job who works long days in the French countryside works hard — really hard. But he’d disagree. He loves what he does, so he isn’t working at all. What he does is art,… More >

If somebody offers you food and you’re genuinely interested, don’t reject it. Don’t interpret anything more than you’ve been presented; take their food and go on with your life! More >

Ignore book recommendations. When someone tells you to read a book, you unconsciously expect value. The best and most meaningful books catch you by surprise. Find them on your own. More >

Look at a dog. Simple lives composed of sleeping, eating, and play. A far-cry from their ancestors. A dog can’t truly understand English, Spanish, or any other language. Dogs can’t even begin to resonate with what you think are important… More >

A resume is a recap of what you have done in life, that exists only as true to you. It’s a useful mechanism for industrial societies, where more people apply to specific jobs than there are jobs available, and the… More >

Don’t watch others have fun. Have fun yourself. Don’t watch others run, swim, or workout. Run, swim, and workout yourself. Don’t watch other people do hard things. Do hard things yourself. Don’t watch other people find love. Find love yourself.… More >

When you forget something you meant to mention, or can’t remember some word, let go. If it’s important enough, you’ll remember. Otherwise, you’re wasting energy dwelling on the past to no end. More >

New habits feel scary. They feel wrong, disruptive, distracting, and like a waste of time. This is normal. New behavior is definitively different, and doesn’t yet fit into your day, week, or month yet. It doesn’t make sense yet. Keep… More >

Habits stick only when you can find enough reason in your life to keep them. If you’ve ever tried to do something daily and you stopped, did you really want to do it? Was it your idea, coming from a… More >

Do whatever you want and feel no obligation to do it at any routine time in the day. Write when you’re inspired, not when your calendar says to. Take advantage of inspiration while it lasts. More >

Most people learn a topic to some end, like a test or quiz, and what’s left after just a week is superficial knowledge of terms by name, but not by meaning. You understand almost nothing truly. You might have knowledge… More >

Don’t waste a moment of effort trying to get others to subscribe to your beliefs, and feel no obligation to explain what you think. Most people have their mind made up already, whether through experience or through the impression of… More >

The most important aspect is your body. Someone in good shape can make clothing of the worst quality look expensive. Then comes fit. Different for everybody, just as important as fitness. Well-fit clothing on someone out of shape looks better… More >

If you’ve never asked yourself, “What is the meaning of life?”, you’ll derive some meaning and valuable understanding from genuinely thinking on the question. However, if you have thought about it yet keep asking, you’ve missed the point. If life… More >

You’re alive! All the rest you deal with, that you believe are problems, do not really exist. Suffering is of the mind, and physical pain is tangible but even then only to you. By believing something is a problem, you… More >

Labels are completely unhelpful. They are a means of grouping people for similarities and commonalities. Labels are helpful because they’re an easy way to communicate your behavior and to understand the community to which you belong. Purely as a means… More >

You often set out with ambitious goals, ones that realistically have multi-year timelines or even never expire. So long as they remain genuinely interesting to you, keep at them. The moment they become a burden on your time, energy, or… More >

There are 24 hours in a day. You sleep 7-8 of those hours. Another hour is spent for travel. An hour for eating or preparing food. An hour of hygiene and miscellaneous activities. Conservatively you have 14 hours remaining. How… More >

Here’s how to work. Define the work, then here’s the important part: give it a time constraint. Don’t give anything more time than necessary. If you think you need more Time, you lack understanding of the assignment or don’t have… More >

Like life, subject to change. More >

Right now is all that is real. The past is what was, so living within the past is living within fiction, a constant state of nostalgia, and the future is what could or might be, but doesn’t exist, so it’s… More >

Silence can be just as entertaining as music. Eventually, repeated enough, music loses its value. Music is too often a default, background music and filler to your life. I love music and it has great value but be as comfortable… More >

Panaceas are attractive marketing tricks. There is no hack to be healthy. It’s a lifelong journey that necessitates being consistent on the essentials. No secret therapies, supplements, workout routines. Be consistent, honest, and over a long enough period of time… More >

Being smart is about being competent at what society values. It’s ever changing and dependent upon what’s important to society. Society always values improvements, so change the world and you’ll be hailed. More >

It’s a small thing, almost too insignificant, to wake up each morning and make your bed. Nobody will see your untidy room and the mess you’ve become. For this reason exactly, that nobody is watching, you must be perfectly diligent.… More >

Love to learn, love to explore, and love to know. More >

Stretch, exercise, study, meditate, read Eat healthy, relax, stay calm, think in the long term Invest, enjoy, live Own everything, be attached to nothing, ignore society More >

I’ve often found I navigate the realm of food and meals with ever-changing habits and behavior. Looking online there are various diets coming from “doctors” that contradict each other. In a space as saturated as health content, creators feel the… More >

Casio F91W I recently got this and it’s become one of my favorite purchases. It has such practical application to my everyday life. I’ve been timing everything — dinner, getting ready in the morning, waiting in line — to get… More >

Sometimes you might catch yourself trying to look, walk, or act a certain way as a means to impress. What you are looking to do is impress someone, but this is in your mind. You do not know what would… More >

Often times, people will attempt to rationalize impulsive purchases by proclaiming that what they are buying is an investment. To define investment a little more tightly: producing material results with money — holding value, appreciation, or some other tangible result.… More >

Politics is an old game that matters only in old contexts. This is why politics matters in undeveloped countries, where life is most akin to the old world. If you care for politics, care for local governments only. Politics makes… More >

The common probe to an accomplished person is always, “What is your daily routine?” The question is tiring and has been exhausted, yet still remains intriguing. If you are going to model your life off of someone accomplished, look to… More >

There is no middle ground with opinions. If you do not have them, you do not care. If you do have them, you are subject to criticism. You could have an opinion on everything, but you don’t. Be careful what… More >

An old story describes Socrates being brought to a market full of luxuries and goods, and remarking that there are so many things here I do not want. Desire can otherwise be defined as suffering, and too much desire is… More >

Everything impressive comes from the repetition of seemingly mundane actions for years on end, otherwise defined as compound interest. The difficulty in accomplishing most things is moreso a function of the required timeline rather than the action itself. It is… More >

Evolutionarily, it’s important that humans have said they will not, under any condition, eat a poisonous food or visit a nearby village known to be violent. In present day, however, humans constrain themselves and restrict their lives verbally through words… More >

“Most of the world’s knowledge has already been written somewhere. You just got to read the right books.” Bill Ackman Modern content provides the illusion of new information, but nearly all information already exists within a book. For this reason,… More >

Everyone seems to be a perfectionist, but this cannot be the case. If we were all perfectionists, we’d have nothing. Technology, by definition, is the set of things that do not work. If engineers did not stop until what they… More >

Investing is easy if you are patient. If Warren Buffet wanted to be rich in his 20s, he wouldn’t be a billionaire in his 90s. Everyone seems to look up to Warren Buffet as a paragon of business and investing,… More >