Issue 47 · a letter, not a newsletter
You don’t have to read this today.
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Issue 47 · 3 min
Hi —
It’s Sunday, which means nothing is due. Not this email, not your inbox, not the version of you that answers by 9.
“Rest is not the reward for finishing. It’s the thing that lets you keep going without disappearing.”
Three things worth five minutes this week:
- A two-minute check-in that just asks what you’re carrying — no journaling required.
- Why saying “let me get back to you” is a complete sentence, not a delay.
- A reader wrote in about the meeting she finally declined. We asked what happened next.
Read it now, or Tuesday, or not at all. It’ll still be true.
— Mira
writes Mind Journal, most weeks
A few people who kept reading
“The Tuesday issue on saying ‘let me check and get back to you’ changed how I run 1:1s. I stopped answering things on the spot just to seem responsive.”
Priya Nandan
Engineering manager, 6-person team
“I read it in the bath, badly lit, half asleep. Still the only newsletter I haven’t muted after three issues.”
Dorian Ackerley
Freelance copywriter
“It doesn’t ask anything of me. That’s the whole reason I keep opening it during a week when everything else does.”
Femi Osaretin
Ops lead at a 40-person startup
You can decide this later. Or you can decide it now.
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