There's a comfortable version of being good, and most of us are familiar with it. Whole podcasts exist so you can listen to strangers discuss what a good person would do. This newsletter exists to wrangle with this topic. Talking feels like moral effort and costs nothing. Being good costs something. Marcus had read the philosophers. This line is him telling himself, in his private journal, that the comfortable part was over.

Pick the good act you keep discussing instead of doing: The apology you owe; the credit someone else earned; the call you've been postponing. Do it before the weekend starts, before you go looking for another quote about it.

What would being good cost you today?

Be good this weekend,

Jon

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