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“Why won’t it load faster?!?” I thought to myself as I waited for Google Sheets to update.

The tiny grey circle stopped spinning and iOS blue started to pour in a micrometer at a time.

Half consciously desperate to stay busy, I switched back to the previous screen.

A still uneditable doc.

Edit with the Sheets app. Get the app!

I reopened the App Store. The Update button smiled at me, like the 🙂 response you get from someone pointing out an obvious mistake.

Update 🙂

The tiny grey circle spun again, and when it stopped spinning I did too, invited to for the first time that day by an ephemeral blue square. It was 8:52pm.

Open

Whatever I was doing in Sheets didn’t seem so important anymore.

Here are a few things I’ve enjoyed this week:

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🧠 Think: The Wages of Productivity, the collected ahp, 6m

We work all the time - even in our leisure time. Anne Helen shares the central arguments from:

Elizabeth Currid-Hackett’s The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class
Melissa Gregg’s Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy.

This week’s message from the universe: slow down (That Seems Important, 3m) via Lee Price

❤️ Feel: I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr., 6m

I find new resonance and renewed hope with every read.

I say to you today, my friends, though, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

🚶🏽‍♀️Do: take a me moment Nashville Public Radio, 2m

Me moments are transforming Warner Arts Magnet Elementary School, with a 75% reduction in behavioral referrals this year. This week, f*ck Kit Kats, enjoy a me moment.

Or, if you’re already a skilled practitioner of me moments, try the lazy way to be outstanding: go after hard things Deliber.at, 5m

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

P.S. on my website this week: the algorithm works 3m

P.P.S. last week’s newsletter, in case you missed it.