Well this has already been an interesting experiment. Only one week in, and I already feel more motivated and focused to work on personal projects and the goals that I’d set. Some of that might just be the ephemeral “New System Energy” that is plentiful when you start a new organizational system or habit, but what the hey; even if it’s fleeting, I’ll gladly ride it as far as I can!

When working on my personal projects, I typically just push straight to main - opening a PR just to approve it seems entirely pointless, as if I had been able to find any issues in my own work, I wouldn’t wait to do it in a PR! However, this does mean that, if I forget to run any quality checkers (linters, tests, etc.), I won’t find out about it until on: push GitHub Action runs, and even then I might not see the failure until several commits later.

Stand-outs among articles I read this year - abandoning the table layout from last year in favour of readability.

One of the first posts on this blog was a retrospective on my reading in 2021 - it seems only natural to do something similar this year.

Thesis statement: Most communication is less urgent than you think. Encoding urgency into messages as (meta)data is valuable - but building a healthy culture around and relationship with communication urgency is even more so.