Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, best known for Le Petit Prince, wrote in Terre des hommes that:
Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n’y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n’y a plus rien à retrancher.
This is normally translated to English as:
Perfection is finally obtained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there’s no longer anything to take away.
This philosophy can also be applied to software. The UNIX adage “make each program do one thing well” encourages slim applications that are not bloated with features or dependencies.
Time management is a tricky business. Ideally we should spend our precious time in Earth doing things that we’re interested in for as long as we want. Unfortunately that’s not how the life of a modern human works. We have responsibilities, chores, busy work, etc. We have activities that we enjoy doing, and tasks that we have to get over, and ideally we should make progress in all of them. We’re in a constant state of context switching. Additionally, we need to take regular breaks to ensure our brain is not overly engaged.
Greetings from San Francisco, and welcome to another round of Debian
contribution logs. Days are getting darker and shorter as summer
breezes out unamusingly. Perhaps it was not my coldest winter, but
it was chilly anyway.