Weekly things

Envy, monthly goals, and mind management

Things to read

• ICYMI: A year of collecting things from the day

• “I didn’t want her life; I just wanted to own what I want” — I spent months being consumed by envy and then I found myself again from

  Natalie Lue
  of
  On Knowing Yourself

• Bizarre French expressions from

  Remy Bazerque
  of
  Enfant Terrible
  (être en carton or “to be made of cardboard” a favourite!)

• Don’t be the best, be the only from

  Kevin Kelly
  via Jason Kottke

A thing to try

Do something once a month —  I love this idea from Allen Pike, who made the goal to write a blog post once a month, and a decade later still has the habit.

The once a month approach is particularly useful for anything you might enjoy and find worthwhile, but don’t yet do regularly. He writes:

“A really nice thing about a monthly habit is that, even if you’re busy – perhaps you’re a parent, a founder, an over-scheduler, or all three – you can still make time for once a month. There are, on average, over 30 nights in a month to pick from! And 30 days, to boot. 8-10 of which are weekend days. The month is your oyster.”

A thing to pon…