The guy who came up with the Post-it note did it by mistake. He was inventing a regular glue, but ended up with a failed version that you couldn’t really glue things together with but that was sticky enough to hold up a piece of paper. When I read about this I was sitting alone on my porch at a hotel in Hurghada, Egypt. A few hundred feet away Swedish, Russian, German and English families were celebrating Christmas Eve and I heard the theme to Mission Impossible rumbling out of the speakers in the party tent and I knew that the time had come to attack the buffet, but that's a completely different story and I promise to tell it some other time.

It's almost like the birth of the Post-it is essential in this text. Or rather the way it was born on. It wasn’t intentional. It was born by mistake. The inventor had one thing in mind with the glue, but it became something else. Therefore I think that we can do the same. Post-it notes are of course originally meant for you to remember things: Do not forget to buy milk. Do not forget the pacifier. Do not forget to water the plants.

Maybe we can play a bit with the idea. Remind oneself of something else? How about post-it notes to remind us that we are pretty nice the way we are? Or to remind others?

A light blue Post-it on the bathroom mirror: You look so fucking great.

A pink Post-it in the refrigerator: Treat yourself to another bun, you’ve worked hard.

A yellow Post-it on the inside of the door: If you’re going out today, you have to promise to kick ass.

I am waiting for your version buddy. Bring it.