Jet’s Journal - #120
February 10, 2026
Hi All!
Here is your weekly round up of what I’m pondering and exploring. Feel free to forward along to a friend if you think they might enjoy.
Energy is up
Lately I’ve had so much more energy, which is probably just a byproduct of eating clean and exercising more. I’ve tried to cut out a lot of the junk I’d normally snack on throughout the day or after work, and have traded my static gym sessions for random mid-week half marathons, cycling, laps in ocean side pools and bringing back in friendly competition with friends. I feel really good in my body and in my mind. If you’re interested I might share some of the foods I’ve introduced and how I’m approaching my diet in a later newsletter.
Corporate world
One thing I’ve noticed from working in a corporate environment is that people treat you like you’re an AI chatbot. I’m not sure if the corporate world has always been like this, but from what I’ve experienced from the multiple rudely written requests I constantly receive is that it feels like people are becoming so accustomed to whipping the bots with short, demanding requests, that the language we use with tools like ChatGPT is spilling over to peer-to-peer online interaction in the workplace.
I’m unsure if this is a symptom of AI, or if the often cold, direct, and demanding communication style is simply just the corporate world existing as it always has. My gut is telling me it’s always been like this and AI is only amplifying the detachment and dehumanisation of workers.
Regardless, the effect that I’m noticing this have on me is that I’m beginning to detach and start taking none of these rudely written requests personally, as I’m realising this is the workplace where you are just another, easily replaceable part of the machine.
I hope to find an environment where I feel valued as a human-being for the ideas, experiences, and skills I bring to the table. Not just how fast information can pass through me.
Life hack
Messy room?
Call a friend, put in your headphones, and catch up while you clean.
Did this the other day and having my mind focus on the conversation while my body cleaned up for me was great.
Would highly recommend.
The Archeology of Art
When you’re working on a project you are like an archeologist, uncovering what is already there. You might not be able to see the entirety of the artefact you’re digging up, and you’re probably going to get your hands a little dirty in the process, but with enough time, consistency, and care, you will eventually see something emerge.
This is why it’s important to keep digging, so you can fully uncover the idea, or project. Also, like any good archeologist you’re well aware that what you’ve just uncovered might still be covered in gunk, and need to be pressure cleaned, and even polished. This is the creative process.
Now, once you’ve got your artefact you might also realise you want to do something with it. You could very easily leave it where you found it and go on with your life, or you could safely package it together, put it in a shipping container, send it to the other side of the world, and then finally start telling people about what you just found.
Someone might offer you money for it, someone else might offer you a chance to display it in a museum, or maybe, you just want to keep it to yourself in your own home. These are the decisions you need to make when creating.
Also, now that I think about it, it’s not even really creating and the better word is just uncovering. There is nothing new under the sun and everything has always existed. It’s just up to us to uncover the recipes, the formulas, and the compositions that are already out there waiting to be discovered.
It’s so interesting to contemplate how before mathematics, bitcoin, chocolate brownies, nuclear bombs, yu gi oh, artificial intelligence, and the device you’re reading this on were discovered, all of their components were there, patiently waiting to be rearranged and polished into what appears as something new. It’s kind of like recipes in Minecraft where all the materials are there, you just need to uncover how they fit together.
It really is quite extraordinary when you truly think about it.
Two Hands
Last weekend I watched an Aussie movie called Two Hands.
It features Heath Ledger and Sydney City set in the 90s.
I really, really, really enjoyed seeing my city on screen, and even the Australian voice, event though it was slightly dated with half the characters saying Fair dinkum, and mate every two seconds.
I would highly recommend.
Hope everyone enjoys their week.
Love,
Jet Williams