Une Petite Pause
For you, for me
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The French take la pause seriously — lunch away from your desk, a break between classes or meetings. It’s what I mean when I talk about France being an anti-optimization culture. Instead of hustling from one deliverable to the next, there are built-in breaks throughout the day. La pause is a moment to catch your breath (or smoke a cigarette, as many French still do.)
Today, I’m embracing my French and taking une petite pause. This week’s essay isn’t ready. I’m taking my own advice to slow down instead of banging it out simply to feed the algorithm and publish at my usual Saturday morning time.
So instead of plowing ahead, here are a few pieces I’ve most enjoyed writing over the years. I hope one of them delights you in a moment of pause of your own.
À toute ❤️
emilie
✨ Money Psychology & Financial Wellness
Impermanence and its Discontents — How to live with uncertain inevitability
“Much of modern life is lived in a sterile, predictable bubble that makes it easy to live in denial of impermanence. This is by design–the brain prefers what is easy and certain. This works until a crisis bursts that bubble.”
What is Money? — Dollars, crypto, and tulips oh my
“Money is a human invention. The most basic, fundamental definition of money is that it is a store of value. In theory anything can be a store of value and history has shown this. Gold, tulips, seashells, dollars, cryptocurrency. Money is anything that represents value, and this is critically important: Money only has the value that we, individually and collectively, assign it.”
✨ Ambition, Motherhood & Modern Womanhood
The Price We All Pay for Motherhood — + a shocking truth I’ve learned from you
“Motherhood radicalized me.”
Thoughts on the biggest professional year of my life — Origin story and life lessons
“Life Lesson #1: Keep moving the ball forward–even if it is imperceptibly incremental, and even if you don’t know where you are going.”
✨ French-American Culture & The Good Life
Not For Sale: Je Ne Sais Quoi — What the French Understand About Money
“Why is it that in a country where the per capita income is roughly half of that of Americans, people move through life with apparent ease?2 The first thing Americans tend to notice when in France is the joie de vivre, the genuine enjoyment of life.”
A Practical Guide to Paris — How to Spend Your Time and Money Well in Paris
“Paris is more than a place. It is a feeling. It is a state of existing. Paris invites us to simply be. What a gift, n’est pas? It is enough to simply be in Paris.”
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✨ How are you taking a pause this weekend?
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DISCLAIMER
The opinions of Emilie Hill are solely her personal opinions and not necessarily the opinions of her employer. Social content provided by Emilie is for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice or an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any security.