Envy knocks on everybody’s door. You just don’t have to give it a spare key.

Feeling the sting when someone else does well is standard equipment, not a character flaw. It arrives unbidden, especially on a phone, where you see other people’s results with none of the weeks behind them. The question is never whether it turns up. It is whether you let it move in and narrate your day, which is where the damage actually happens.

When it appears, name it once and skip the argument about whether you should feel it. Then go do fifteen minutes of your own work, since motion dissolves it faster than reasoning. If one feed reliably hands it the key, mute that feed for a week.