Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
I’m moving servers, from the old Textdrive shared BSD boxes to the shiny new Joyent shared accelerators. I’m also moving from a ‘/~mlarocque’ (yes I am an old-school unix geek) base url to ‘/mlarocque’. Redirects written, etc. I’m hoping not to break things. Too badly at least.
Excellent, excellent hour long Google Tech Talk by Merlin Mann of 43 Folders about processing that out of control email inbox of yours. This is how I manage my email.
