Autumn in Montréal is all about gentle warmth and eye-popping colours. 💛🧡❤️

Autumn Memorial

Something to ponder as you start a new week: EVERY SINGLE PERSON I know who has an amazing life rebooted at some point, making major changes to their career, relationships, or living situation. Nobody gets everything right the first time, and incremental changes usually aren’t

Stand by Me (1986) feels especially poignant today. Rob Reiner poured his own childhood into the film, pushing for honesty over polish & letting the kids sound like real kids. A beautiful piece of his legacy.

"In the morning there is a silence waiting to be written - and coffee is the first ink." Rilke ☕️📚🌷 Good morning

Beautiful. This is what it's all about. People who tell you to do the bare minimum are hurting you & your entire family. Don't waste the opportunities of a lifetime. Run for the fences. Make money, do good things & make life amazing for those you care about.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how the internet has changed the small town vs. big city tradeoff, and I keep coming back to this: a strong local community is an indisputable advantage. I’ve been thinking about this from a few angles: 1. With more and more family and friends

I wrote a related post on how the internet has solved small towns’ traditional disadvantages, while their inherent advantages—like strong local communities—are now drawing ambitious, family-oriented people out of cities: alexandraallen.substack.com/p/the-end-of-s…

I wish my passport was stamped by all the places I've visited in books.

be bored more often. take a walk without phone, exercise without music, do the dishes without watching tv. let your mind be blank. ideas will pop up organically

Villa is my fave - and not just because it’s my station. Here are a few more shots that show how cool it is: x.com/alexandraallen…

Bend Toward Optimism: Optimism matters in your approach to everything. Seeing problems as opportunities, seeing possibility in hard times, and being that person... It changes your team, home life, and your own trajectory. Optimism is often a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Every time I come back from the bookstore . :) Night

Timely because I recently swapped my Fitbit for an analog watch I normally only wear on nicer occasions looks and feels better and has a grounding effect since 1) I don’t have digital numbers glaring from my wrist, and 2) I’m more attuned to my body I still think fitness

Life is such a tender arrangement of if and when. And why and how.

vids that go hard The scientist to founder pipeline is astonishingly small, and if we could find an unlock to this, we'd have incredible breakthroughs.

Obsessed with stone moon gates, they feel like a passageway to another world

“Your dreams just got a lot closer” ❤️‍🔥