The Best Thing is our weekly discussion thread where we share the one thing that we read, listened to, watched, did, or otherwise enjoyed recently.

My best thing for the week is that satisfying feeling you get from deleting things. I’ve been on a quest to simplify my online/digital life. Recently, I finally came to terms with the fact that there are just some files I no longer need. I hit delete on (almost) all of my old college papers. (Saved the two theses I wrote, though.) At first, I felt very anxious about that but, just as I did it, I felt a burden lift. I’m just never going to look at them again. Why was I keeping them around for so long?