Hey 👋

Last night, my Happy broke. Luckily, it was just a sample.

I picked glass shards up off the floor, the smell of fruit and flowers quickly filling my 8x8’ grey bathroom. “This is newsletter material you can’t make up,” said the voice in my head.

The smell vaguely reminds me of high school; I’ve been a Happy loyalist since then. I stood up, shallowly sad for the loss, but also, happy.

My self imposed weekly deadline has created an almost constant awareness of the future. The concept of the future hasn’t always been a thing; humans didn’t start worrying about it en masse until the agricultural revolution. Crystal ball -> Sunday scaries. Future awareness kind of sucks.

Chances are, your happiest moments happen when the voice in your head is quiet, unaware of the time. When you aren’t thinking about your imagined news cycle. When you’re surrendering to the late Ram Dass’s decree of “be here now.”

So, I closed the door and sat still on the edge of the bath tub, from human future doing to human present being, breathing in Happy fumes.

Here are a few things I enjoyed this week:

🧠Think: the 3 most important forces shaping the world Collaborative Fund, 18m

I continued my binge of “stuff that brilliantly ties together past, present and future.” Morgan Housel opens with the impact that World War II has had on everything, to tee up a breakdown of 3 (other) big things that will impact the coming decades: demographic shift, wealth inequality and access to information.

Quick read: Quality and Effort Seth’s Blog, 2m

❤️Feel: love

Over the break, I read The Green Priest, a post-apocalyptic fantasy written by my coworker Ryan Law. It fulfilled a desire I didn’t know I had; falling back in love with fiction. I read The Alchemist immediately after, a written reminder that happiness comes from the pursuit of our Personal Legend. A quote:

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

🚶🏽‍♀️Do: something, or STFU

I think the only way you should be able to share sad sh*t is if you’ve made a donation to that [cause]. It would drastically reduce the spread of useless sadness on social media. - a wise but anonymous person

Australia is burning. You can donate to the Red Cross Relief here.

I see you, I love you, let’s have a great week.

P.S. on my website this week: how to nap, even at work, even if you’re not a napper and make better decisions.

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