This post is about happiness
Philippe Beaudoin · December 29, 2025
I dreamt I was on a spaceship. The dream did not make much sense. It was partly a movie, partly my own story. I woke up after a dialogue that I wanted to share with you.
We were trapped. Four of us. I was there, I didn’t know the other three. Two women one man. It’s unclear what kept us trapped. An evil captain? A technical malfunction? But there we were, miserable, lost in space.
The guy asks: if you could be anywhere, where would you be right now?
One of the girl starts to talk about her memories of Vancouver. How, for her, it is the perfect place on earth. She describes lush forests, snow peaks, the calm waters of an estuary.
And all along I’m thinking… she is not talking about a place, she is talking about the memory of a place.
And happiness is not about being somewhere that makes you happy. It’s a process that can transform where you are into a moment you’ll remember with fondness.
Then it strikes me: what we’re doing, the four of us, there, in this dream, is precisely that process. We’re stealing a few minutes away from our circumstances to talk together, and if we choose our words right we may transform a miserable spaceship into a happy memory.
Words do that. They are the memory forgers. They are the raw material at the heart of the process. If you learn to wield them right, you’ll gain some magic powers. The power to summon the lush forests of Vancouver into the coldest of spaceships. The power to hold the sadness of someone you don’t yet love in a way that makes their teary eyes light up.
It’s a bizarre thing to say on LinkedIN: “Words are magical”. But they are. And they are in a way that matters for anything anyone here is trying to build.
Every word you utter and that someone listens to changes that person. With every word you are reshaping the clay of our common world. There will always be a place for words that feel good, words that sound true. Words are the ultimate product for a market that will never go away: the market of happiness.
So that’s what I wish for you in 2026.
Not a successful startup, not a job, not even love or happiness. I wish you let yourself learn the process of mastering your own words. Of writing, or thinking, or dreaming so much that you hear how each word resonates in the ears of the people you meet… so that you can contribute to shaping the clay of our common world in a way that will undoubtedly leave it more beautiful for everyone.
In a way that will undoubtedly make us all happier. You included. You first.
❤️