Good morning, John.

A quick little video here on this day after Thanksgiving where I show you me making Hank-lerfish for the Project for Awesome, which will be next year. You can't have them yet. But also, I talk to you about things that I am thankful for. I obviously have a long list here. I mean, I imagine my list is maybe longer than anybody else's ever in the history of Earth. Obviously, there are things about the world and my life that I don't love, but in terms of winning lotteries, I won them all. I mean, I also won the “got cancer” lottery, but I won that lottery after having won the “born at a time and place when chemo was available” lottery, so it balances.

I have many, many things to be thankful for in my private life, but I'm going to give you two things from my public life here today. First, that we have a lot of people who want very much for our weird ideas to succeed, whether that's free educational videos for anyone with an Internet connection or some of the world's best socks and coffee and soap and tea, with 100% of the profit going to charity. Many of these people are in the room with us right now. And by “the room”, I mean this video, which I actually do imagine in my head as some kind of bizarre physical space that brings people's consciousnesses together in a way that is somehow simultaneously both inside and outside of time and space.

And for those people, pro-tip: it is Black Friday as I upload this, which means that you can get the Complexly calendar, with all of its beautiful illustrations, at Complexly.Store to support the work that Complexly does. And also, you can get all the rest of your shopping done at Good.Store, where just this weekend, everything is 25% off and there is free shipping on everything over $59. So that's as good as the deals are going to get this year.

To all those people, I am grateful because I don't think it's interesting unless we're trying to do something cool and good together.

Second thing I'm grateful for: my worry. Being on the social Internet is not always super chill. I feel like sometimes, when I screw up in some way or another— like, I get a fact really wrong in a video or I tweet something I didn't think would be controversial but turns out it was super controversial—it sometimes feels like there's a lot of people, like, waiting nearby, ready to gleefully point at me and say, like, “See, I told you he wasn't a good person. I always got bad vibes from that guy!” And look, I'm the last person you should come to for an objective take on whether or not I'm a good person, especially because I am— have no idea. But this is not my point. My point is that I am grateful for my worry. I have so many little worry spirals like that one. But I have realized that if I'm gonna care, I'm gonna worry. And that worry is in service of something. I'm worried about this community and my health and the teams at DFTBA and Good Store and Complexly, and I worry about meeting our obligations to support Partners in Health, and I worry about the extent to which all of this relies on you and me and our reputations and our relationship with this community. 

And I could simply make that worry go away by not trying to do these things anymore, or I could look at the worry and I could say, “well, I guess if I'm going to do these things that I want to do, I have to carry around this thing that I don't like, my worry”. Or, I could look at the worry and I could say, “thank you, you are trying to tell me about something important and I am listening to you.” I can say, “hey, I'm grateful for that notice that this thing that I care about isn't safe. I 100% hear you. But also during Thanksgiving weekend, perhaps just like, shh. Like, I love you, worry. I would be nothing without you. But also, like, just shh. You can talk to me when I get back to work.”

John, I'll see you on Tuesday.

Also, again, 25% off everything at Good.Store. All the profit gets donated to charity. You could do all your Christmas shopping at once, and orders over $59 have free shipping.