Jason Fried is a smart guy, but also a little naive. Fewer people than he thinks actually have full control over their schedule. Most real job just don't work that way.

Time is the most precious thing there is, yet we split it up and give it away like there's an endless supply. And whatever time you do have, you have even less attention.

Still; the above is so true.

I don't do a lot of "buy this; donate here" crap. I don't really give a shit what you do with your money.

Micro.blog is different. I don't know if it will succeed. I don't even know if it will be good. I do like what it stands for, though.

Check out the project on Kickstarter and back it if it seems important to you. I already did.

Here's my iPhone 7 Plus home screen to start the year.

Only three more days of this.

Facebook birthday notifications are great. Except when they are for a family member who didn't make it through 2016. Those are not so great.

Much of this article is right, but this bit is just nonsense:

Our bodies turn most of the food we eat into sugar. Good sugar, or glucose, comes from carbohydrates like bread and pasta. It fuels the cells throughout our bodies, including our brains.

There's no such think as good sugar. Painting bread and pasta as healthy? Get out of here. Hold the sugar; pass the fat.

Just like 2015, and just like 2014, 2016 has come to an end.

I'm not mad at the year like many people. Good things happened; bad things happened. Lots of things changed. It wasn't an easy year.

I don't do New Year's Resolutions. But I won't make fun of you if you do. I'll be happy for you instead.

In 2016, I posted to this site 166 times. That includes the microposts that I started early in the year. I don't have a breakdown of articles vs microposts, but it's safe to say over half of the posts were of the short variety. In any case, it's a huge increase from the 54 postings in 2015.

So, 2017. It will probably be full of good things and bad things. With a bit of luck, we'll have more of the first, and less of the second.

One of the best articles I've read all year.

Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.

This.

You should put your stuff on a self-hosted static site. You should not follow the crazypants directions in this article. It's a great way to take a reasonably simple thing and make it 80x more complex.

Ok, so we've now got an app.sls that's going to take care of a lot of things. Now I know you're thinking "what is all this pillar crap that he's using?", well we are going to get to that in a minute, the key thing here is that you understand what each of these items do, it's pretty easy to tell right? for the hungryadmin_venv variable, it's clearly the location of our virtual environment, and our hungryadmin_user, is simply our user for the virtual environment. The only slightly confusing one here is hungryadmin_proj, but even that we can figure out.

Maybe this is the sort of motivation I need to finally write up a complete Pelican how-to.¹