Owing to the cover image, I produced a short video on the folly of the pursuit of happiness. The image is purportedly a work of Banksy. It looks like a bad Photoshop, but that’s unimportant. I’m responding to the sentiment. The motivational blurb is half right: You can’t make someone else happy. But neither should you seek happiness. It’s a fool’s errand. Check out the 60-second short video on YouTube.

Several motivators have been identified as motivators for humans—ostensibly, human nature. One is happiness. John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Betham had a hand in this. In economics, they substitute utility for happiness. And then there’s Freud’s pleasure-pain dichotomy. I’ve got a longer form of content in the works. Please stand by.