James Jarvis

One Second Every Day

hello@jamesjarvis.io (James Jarvis) — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Since the 23rd June 2016, my 18th birthday, I have been recording one second of every day of my life.

This all started out after watching Cesar Kuriyama’s (link) fantastic TED talk (link) on his project of the same name and nature.

I wouldn’t be lying if I said this has been one of my favourite projects I have ever embarked on in my life. As my care for social media has dwindled, this project has remained. I started this project with the goal of making myself accountable to do at least one worthwhile thing every day, and it has flourished into a way to reflect on my growth as a person.

This could mean anything, it could be that I visited a place/did something for the first time, or treated someone special to me, or just took time to enjoy the little moments of life.

You can watch my whole adult life back to back, or if you’d rather watch something a little bit cooler, you can check out some of my other videos on youtube where I have recorded some more ambitious moments. Or alternatively, one of my favourite videos of all time.

Do one thing every day that scares you - Various Sources

Reading

hello@jamesjarvis.io (James Jarvis) — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Thoughts

hello@jamesjarvis.io (James Jarvis) — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Projects

hello@jamesjarvis.io (James Jarvis) — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Personal Finance

hello@jamesjarvis.io (James Jarvis) — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The 'Mini Sabbatical'

hello@jamesjarvis.io (James Jarvis) — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Between August and November 2023, I paused my normal life in London, and spent some time working and travelling around South East Asia (primarily Singapore).

This series of blog posts is my attempt at summarising what I experienced, and what I learnt during this time.

As a reader, you may not be the right audience for these posts! These are intended as a way for me to remember these experiences, and share them with those I care about, they are not easily consumable if you don’t care about me, and that’s ok.

I also live-blogged about this trip on my Polarsteps “Grand Asian Adventure”, so you can follow along there as well.

I hope you get some enjoyment out of reading this, as I did both experiencing and writing.

Travel

hello@jamesjarvis.io (James Jarvis) — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

China

hello@jamesjarvis.io (James Jarvis) — Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Data

hello@jamesjarvis.io (James Jarvis) — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Investments

hello@jamesjarvis.io (James Jarvis) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Longer-form writing about investing: what I hold, why I hold it, and what I get wrong.

I’m not a financial adviser and none of this is advice. It’s a record of my own decisions and reasoning, published mostly so future me can see how badly present me judged things.

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