Voice Of The Journey

Why do we spend hours watching other people play a game? I love soccer, but I’m injured right now, so watching is about as close as I can get to playing. My dad sees it differently: he’d rather get out there than sit through a match. Honestly, I get his point.

I started thinking about why we play, why we watch, and how long people have been inventing games. That sent me from modern football to ancient ball games in China and Mesoamerica. I don’t have a grand answer. I’m just fascinated that playing seems to follow us wherever humans go—and that watching someone become unbelievably good at a game can be its own experience.

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Before I was born, I wasn’t waiting around for my turn—or at least I don’t remember anything. I keep wondering whether death could be like that.

I hit record without an outline and ended up talking about not existing, losing people I love, and this weird idea that the more you suffer after someone dies, the more you must have loved them. I don’t think grief works like a scoreboard. But I haven’t lost my parents or my brother, so I’m not going to pretend I know how I’ll react when that happens.

I’m thinking about getting a vasectomy.

A line from Socrates about examining your life got me asking what makes mine worth living. I don’t think having a child would hand me an answer. Life can be fucking great, and it can also be hard as hell. Making the choice to bring someone else into it is something I can’t stop questioning.

The article I mention: https://psyche.co/ideas/whats-a-life-worth-living-for-the-ancients-it-depends

I started learning Greek because I was fascinated by Greek philosophers. Three years later, I’m still nowhere near fluent, but it sent me down a rabbit hole: where did language even come from?

I found an MIT article about a paper suggesting humans had the capacity for language at least 135,000 years ago. That doesn’t tell us when somebody said the first word, which honestly makes the question even more interesting to me. I talk through a few ideas about how language might have developed, what learning Greek made me notice, and how we ended up with thousands of languages while sharing this incredible ability to use one at all.

I’m definitely not a linguist. I just couldn’t stop thinking about it.

Sources I mention:

MIT News: https://news.mit.edu/2025/when-did-human-language-emerge-0314

Original paper: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1503900

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I love being around my little cousin. We became close when I lived with him in LA, and I miss him now that I’m back in Guatemala. That experience didn’t make me want children of my own. I’ve changed my mind about parenthood more than once, but for the past few years my answer has been no.

In this episode, I talk about the responsibility and uncertainty that shape my decision—and the pressure to have kids simply because it’s what people expect. I’m not arguing that nobody should become a parent. I think it’s a choice worth making honestly, for yourself.

I studied mechanical engineering, but I’d never stopped to think about some everyday objects as machines. Today I came across the six classical simple machines—the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw—and the screw caught my attention. An inclined plane wrapped around a shaft is such a simple idea, yet it changed how I looked at the objects around me.

Have you ever had a basic idea suddenly click after years of being around it?

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I sat down to define success for myself. If it only means hitting a goal, the feeling might last a day before I start chasing the next one. But I also don’t want to pretend the goal doesn’t matter: I want to cover my basic expenses, be ready for an emergency, and have more independence.

In this episode, I talk through the harder part of that definition—failing, trying again, and showing up when I don’t feel like it. Working out gives me one example of what that looks like in my life. I haven’t figured out how to enjoy every setback.

Three years ago, I wrote a diary entry on the day I picked up my Tesla Model 3. I was excited and felt like I’d accomplished something. Reading that entry now is strange because I see the car as a bad decision.

I started journaling after my therapist suggested it, and I’m glad I did. The entry brought back details I’d forgotten, including what I felt and what people around me said. It also brought back regret. In this episode, I talk about why I write things down, how different a memory can feel when I revisit it, and the part I’m still figuring out: how to learn from a decision without staying angry about it.

I’ve used zero in equations and calculations for years, but I never stopped to ask what it actually means. A scene from Young Sheldon got me talking about it, and I couldn’t let the question go.

Zero can tell me there are no elephants in a room. In the number 10, it does something different: it holds a place. And even when it represents an absence, zero is still something I can write and calculate with. I don’t arrive at a grand answer in this episode. I’m trying to understand a familiar idea I’ve taken for granted, and wondering how often I know how to use something without really understanding it.

The Sun is white. So why did I grow up drawing it yellow?

I looked into what sunlight contains and what happens as it travels through Earth’s atmosphere. This is a short episode about a familiar thing I’d never thought to question.

https://science.nasa.gov/reference/the-heliopedia/

https://nibble-app.com/blog/is-the-sun-yellow-or-white