A.T.

When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the

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Love is a form of unilateral disarmament: an instinctual willingness for vulnerability that overwhelms our surface defences and at the same time, rids us in a frightening way, of the need for defences at all: love is frightening, exactly because it overwhelms and disarms us, takes us apart and strangely, simplifies us into something more real, more... See more

Love is merciless because in its raw elemental form, it is non-negotiable, it does not ask for reciprocation or for our affections to be requited, love just wants to take the path to a deeper and greater love and will burn away in its fire any who will not follow its uncompromising way. Love, we are afraid to discover, just wants us to love

Vorfreude means “the pleasure of anticipation.” I learned it from Jono Hey’s excellent Sketchplanations newsletter. “The magic of vorfreude lies in how it stretches out the pleasure of any upcoming event or experience,” writes Jono. “Once I hit 'Confirm' to book a trip, it kicks off joy for months whenever I think about the trip.” — MF