we're really good at telling people the problem is inside them. fix your habits, fix your mindset, go to therapy. we're a lot quieter about the rooms they're actually living in.

i keep thinking about something someone said about new york's rent freeze:

"it did more for my nervous system than years of therapy."

that one line says the thing we don't want to admit: you can't breathe your way out of a real problem. a rent freeze is housing policy on paper, but to a body it's just safety. the low constant hum of "what if it goes up, what if i have to leave" finally goes quiet. and when it does, the whole system exhales in a way no amount of self-work could pull off.

the inner work isn't fake. it's that we've quietly handed structural problems back to people as personal ones. "have you tried journaling" doing the job that stability was supposed to do.

what i took from it is smaller, though. i want to get better at looking outward when something in me feels wrong. i'm fast to ask what's wrong with me. i'm slow to ask what's around me.

so i'm trying to scan for it now. the space, the pace, the noise, the money stuff, who i give my time to, whether i actually sleep. some of it i can change, some of it i can't. but naming a thing as a condition instead of a flaw changes how it sits on you.

not everything inside you is yours to fix. some of it is just the room.

i found this line in a video the other day and it kind of stopped me:

"you obsess over your identity in relation to others, while your soul rots inside of you"

the video itself was almost embarrassingly simple. it was about scrolling. how you can see a hundred beautiful things in a day, get genuinely inspired by all of them, save them somewhere, and then... nothing. the inspiration just gets filed away for a later that never comes.

that line was the harsh version of why that's a problem. when all you do is take things in, you start living in relation to everything you see. comparing, saving, building a version of yourself out of other people's stuff. meanwhile the part of you that actually makes things just sits there, unused. you become a spectator of your own life.

i've been there. i still catch myself there. it's easier to admire than to make. saving is frictionless. making is not.

but i think the point of being here is to actually be in it. a participant and not an audience. and for me a big part of that is making things. drawing, cooking, taking photos, building something useless on a sunday. it doesn't have to be good. it just has to be mine, and it has to actually happen.

that's basically what this whole site is. somewhere to let the inspiration turn into something instead of rotting in a saved folder.

so. go make stuff. me too.

last year was a lot. a few things in life got pretty messy, and for a while i dealt with it the way i usually do. i stayed busy. i worked, i learned new things, i kept building stuff. it helped in some ways, but it also meant i never really stopped long enough to check in with how i was actually doing.

towards the end of the year i finally paused for a second and admitted something i probably already knew. i had mostly been running on momentum. which works for a while, until it doesn't.

i still like working hard and learning things. that hasn't changed. but i could see that work and projects had slowly become my default way of coping with everything else going on.

so lately i've been trying to approach life a little differently. not by becoming a completely different person, just by being more intentional with things.

planning my week instead of reacting to it. cooking at home more. making time for stuff i enjoy instead of waiting until everything else is done. sketching again. taking photos. messing around with a 3d printer. building a little home lab.

this site is part of that too. i mostly just wanted a place to put things that don't need to be polished or optimized. thoughts, photos, little experiments. also i spent way too long getting the cards on this page to land exactly how i wanted them.

so yeah. this is just a small corner of the internet for whatever i happen to be making or thinking about lately.

when i was 17 i came up with the name labkit studio. it sounded like a place where you mess around with ideas and figure things out as you go, which is pretty much what i was doing back then.

i'm 22 now and the way i think about my work has changed a lot since then. the old name just didn't really fit anymore.

so i started good internet club.

it's a small studio where i build internet products with a trusted network of developers i like working with. we work with creators, communities, and businesses who have interesting ideas and want to turn them into real things. sometimes that's a website, sometimes a tool, sometimes something a little weirder.

i've always cared a lot about the craft of building things. how something feels to use. the small details that people might not notice directly but still feel when everything is done right.

a lot of the web right now feels a bit copy pasted. same templates, same patterns, same products with slightly different colors. so the goal with good internet club is pretty simple. make things that feel thoughtful, well built, and nice to use.

also the little star next to the name is bleb. he doesn't really do much but we like having him around.

welcome to the club.