Welcome back to the 1st Law Newsletter.

I always feel like I should say something interesting here… idk lol. Enjoy!

What do you really want?

This is actually a really hard question to answer. External influence is everywhere these days.

One advantage of being fully immersed in the Apple ecosystem is that the screen time is counted across all devices. Work laptop, phone, iPad, etc… Sometimes, seeing this number at the end of the day is a real shock and disappointment. But that is just to say that we are constantly being bombarded with info. If I am looking at a screen for 14 hours a day, when do I have time to reflect on my life and what I want?

I’m not saying I don’t like technology. It brings us together in many ways. But it also permeates every single minute of our lives.

I find that I need to schedule time, here and there, maybe weekly, to unplug and reflect. IT really is beneficial, but not immediately. Like meditation, the results only appear after continuous and sustained effort to unplug.

I am trying the Arnold Bennett method of living on 24 hours a day (again). All I am doing differently from normal is: concentrating on my commute to work—concentrating on one topic for roughly 30 mins. And contemplating/ reflecting on my way home (~30 mins).

All I want to know is where Im going to die so I can never go there.

New people

Sometimes people just click. The first few times you talk to them, it’s just so easy and relaxed. You crack a couple of jokes that may be crossing an imaginary line, then they push it even further. A new friendship is born that easily. I believe that people…

You know what, fuck that. I don’t know what I believe. I say I believe so much in this newsletter without actually meaning it. I just have to say it so I have some credibility. Idk.

But seriously though. New people bring new ideas and experiences. Sometimes, after hanging out with someone new, it is hard to imagine your life without them in it. I feel this way about many people who I have met in the last 5 years. How would I exist without knowing this person at a deep level? Without the things that they have taught me?

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Thanks for reading!

Lucas