Luke reflects on modern conveniences and asks whether easy access to food, transport and entertainment actually improves life, sharing personal anecdotes and prompting reflection on when convenience replaces effort or connection.
Luke opens the video with a friendly morning greeting, mentions the time and location in Minneapolis, and shares his affection for the community and his role at Cadre.
Luke briefly mentions his struggles with anxiety and panic attacks, then introduces the video's main question: whether making life easier with instant conveniences actually makes life better.
Using anecdotes about electric bikes and conveniences like delivered coffee and rideshares, Luke illustrates how modern conveniences have changed daily life and reduced the need for effort or patience.
Luke asks viewers to reflect on areas they consistently choose convenience over effort and to question their motives—convenience, time, or avoiding social interaction.
Luke thanks the audience, previews upcoming app updates and a newsletter, praises the platform, recommends a song, and signs off.
Good morning. Happy Monday, everybody. It is 845 Central time in beautiful downtown Minneapolis. Here we are. Gosh, what a great spot. It's pretty nice, pretty nice Monday. It's beautiful weather. It's gorgeous here. We're going to have like unseasonably hot weather, which is nice. Got a little hairdo. How you like that? Lexa, stop. But again, my name is Luke Wentland. I've been at Cadre since day one. I love this place. I love everything about this community. I love sometimes winning life, sometimes making mistakes, sometimes doing all of it.
sometimes going through a little bit of mental health stuff on my own with generalized anxiety disorder and panic attacks. I live to be here. I live for what we get the privilege to do every day, which is try to alter and change lives. So this is my dream. But my message today is easier, but is it better? So, you know, if you look at like the course of the last 15 years, we've got to the point that we can get literally anything at any time at our fingertips. We can get anywhere immediately. We don't have to wait for nothing.
We don't even have to wait for like a sitcom. We don't have to wait for, we just, we simply don't need to hold on to any thoughts or feelings of patience. because it's right there for us. And so I'm just like, I'm just wondering, is this life better? Is this life better that we have today with everything and anything possible for us available at our fingertips? And And is this the life that we want for our next generation? It doesn't mean anxiety is going away. It doesn't mean alcoholism and all the other things that happen are just immediately going to stop.
But what I've kind of found is some of the greatest wins I've had in this life are because I went through the hard, not the easy. I was at my son's soccer game yesterday and I was sitting next to this amazing dad, his name's Landon. I just absolutely love him. He's from Louisiana. And he saw these kids driving by on electric bikes. And he looked at me and he's like, is this what the world has come to? You know, that we have these electric bikes just flying by that we no longer can pedal ourselves to places, but we have to expedite that even to get to the point of like, we gotta go 25 miles an hour, not 15, in order to get there.
And we don't even have to use any energy. basically you have to hold your hands up in order to get there. And so we talked about it kind of in nausea and we did the whole thing of like, when I was a teenager and I have a feeling that if either of my grandparents were alive today, four of them, if either of my grandparents are alive today and I kind of like told them about how I can sit at the office, I can have a cup of coffee dropped off to me. I can have lunch, basically be heated up, ready to go for noon, set, ready.
I could have a ride home, never have to basically do a thing except have my phone in order to pay for all of it. Like, is that really a good life? Is that truly like a good life for our world? And I wonder about it. And I wonder about it for my kids. And I wonder about it for the next generation. Because sometimes I'm just curious, like, is easier really better? Or is easier just easier? And that's it. So with that, I encourage you to think about some things that you're continually trying to make easy in your life to ask yourself why.
Like why are you trying to make it easier? Is it convenience? Is it time? Is it not talking to other people? Like what is it? Like what's the reason that you're choosing easy? So think about that one. You guys all take care. Have an amazing week. Thank you for everything. Thank you for showing up. Like I said, I love Cadre more than anything. Been here for four years going live now. Isn't that crazy? Every Monday morning, I won't miss it. Live to be here. So thank you all. And one thing I want to say too is we have a couple new updates coming out.
And so when those updates come out, there will be a newsletter. So you'll have the newsletter of like all the different things that have changed and shift. But I do have to say like this app is absolutely on fire. It is incredible. It's A privilege to be here. It's A privilege to be a part of the platform. So hopefully you all love it as much as I do. All right. Alexa, play. Alexa, play. This is a good one. So I got to get going in the background. So this is Pearl Jam, Just Breathe. It's such a good song.
Pearl Jam, Just Breathe. Put that one on the playlist today. All right, bye-bye.
