Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. (Vanity is also a really funny-sounding word.)

I've been kind of sick for the last week. Not incredibly sick, but just sick enough that I was disinclined to do anything. It was terrible. My productivity went into the toilet. I became emotionally depressed. And all I wanted to do was lie in bed and sleep a lot.

But I did learn something from it. I'm just not exactly sure what that thing was.

I think it…