Hello hello. Hope you’re having a lovely week. Are you drinking enough water? Do it.
Today’s theme is: Not.
That’s right, just don’t. These recs encouraged me to just not and so now I want to encourage you to embrace that same ethos. Does right by us all, ya know?
Anyway, here we go:
1/ The sunk cost fallacy of your career.
Not feeling the need to finish something just because you started it is one of the most freeing concepts I’ve ever grasped, one that, especially as an inherently competitive person with obsessive-compulsive tendencies, does not come easy, and one that changed how I view my career and, in turn, my entire life.
Also, I appreciate this take:
We are IN our lives and we can do whatever the hell we want with them! Sacrificing a few years in an unpleasant career to make room for a whole new part of your personhood—a part that could not possibly translate to the hellscape that is LinkedIn and thank god—has its own inherent value. And opening ourselves up to different forms of value can be life-changing if we allow ourselves to silence the ingrained comparisons that capitalism so brutally instills.
2/ Another reason not to have kids. This one’s a stretch, but eesh. Not the art!
Also kind of related, but not, how incredible is this story about a rock used as a doorstep? Obsessed.
3/ I’ve always hated when people abbrev on a text. Let’s not.
Ok, not sure this week’s themed drop really worked, but thank you as always for reading and sharing this newsletter! Means the world. Feel free to pass along to anyone you think may need to just not. See you Thursday.