Hey 👋🏽,

I’ve never washed my windows.

This occurred to me during a mid week post dinner walk. 5yo ran off after a frog but I slowed, smiling at a neighbor leaning out of her window with a bucket and a sponge. A vignette stolen from that opening scene of Beauty and the Beast.

When we got home, I glared at our windows. Each contained a galaxy of dirt, debris and water stains but I’ve been so stuck inside or distracted gazing beyond I didn’t see the neglected glass.

On Thursday I glared at

clean windows

on my to do list. Then 5yo ran in in a bright orange NASA onesie.

I love you more than I’d love going to space! Because, you know, I’m scared of aliens.

100 billion stars in our galaxy, 100 billion galaxies in our universe. Here come the Men in Black. Fair.

I setup space stations for him to explore and he filled a bucket with warm water and soap. He shot into space and I came back to Earth.

An upside down neighbor sweeping their front patio nodded at me while I bent backwards out of my treehouse, sponge in hand.

I climbed back inside and closed the window, picking up my iPhone. 10+ pages of results for telescopic window washer squeegee things. Add to cart.

Blast off!

Screamed 5yo, running down two flights of stairs and out the front door. I watched him launch into orbit through sparkling windows.

Here are a few things I enjoyed this week:

🧠longtermism 80,000 Hours, 16m

Most people think we should have some concern for future generations, but this obvious sounding idea leads to a surprising conclusion...It’s important to reduce the probability of bad futures as well as increase the probability of good ones.

❤️how 1 cup of coffee inspired a journey of a thousand thank yous TedX, 15m

One night at dinner, my 10-year-old son said to me, “You know, dad, those people can’t hear you. They’re not in our apartment. If you really care, you should go thank them in person. It seemed relatively simple. And to make it even simpler, I decided to focus on just one item – an item I can’t live without: My morning cup of coffee. As projects often do, it turned out to be not so simple at all...It allowed me to focus on the thousands of things that go right everyday, and the interconnectedness of our world.

Thanks to Jeanie Spiegel for sending me a note sharing this project ❤️

🚶🏽‍♀️be an effective altruist The Atlantic, 20m

You can make a truly enormous difference in the world if you live in a rich country
you can "do good better" by thinking scientifically rather than sentimentally; and
you can do good even better by trying to find the greatest need for the next marginal dollar.

+ to tell someone they're wrong, first tell them they're right Quartz, 1m

I see you, I love you, first Zoom class at 5P this Wednesday…!

P.S. thanks for the recent article shares. I’d love to know what you’re reading, and what’s on your mind. If you have a minute, reply, and lmk!