The 1€ GmBH isn't available in all (most?) European countries. I know that Germany introduced them a couple of years ago. It's great if you live in the country where you register the GmbH, but it can get lots of tax paper work quickly when your country of residence differs from the country where your company is registered.
The article states a number of laws this proposition is most likely to conflict with. I very much doubt it will hold in court, and certainly someone will sue. I guess it won't even land at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
But even if I'm right, it still damages the public discussion on privacy and civil rights. It is one of many steps pulling public opinion in a frightening direction.
I'm also concerned about pinboard. I have a long-time archiving subscription and just recently extended it for the next 5 years. When my bookmarks didn't archive since October, I mailed support. No reply, but now all bookmarks are archived again. I'm not sure if something got fixed, or I just got lucky.
It's obvious that Maciej has put all his attention into political campaigning over the last year - good on him! But the pinboard blog hasn't been updated since 18 months, and the quality of its minimal-by-design service starts eroding.
I really do hope he can clarify here or on his blog what's the future plan for pinboard. I always liked pinboard being very down to earth with the marketing, but that's no excuse for ignoring the paying customer base.
Thanks for sharing, I'm considering bare metal as well for a project. Is latency between the two data centers an issue for you, e.g. is one of your two servers running a SQL database as master?
Right, I replicate the database. Latency hasn't been a problem for our volume. During our peak hours we get 30 requests/second, so it's pretty manageable.
> it’s much more effective to focus your effort on one thing.
This is the gist I got from this post, and while I agree with the statement I think it is too simplistic.
I am one of those persons that "have a long list of goals, desires, and wants for your life" as teased in the article. I think it's clear that focus helps to achieve an item on that list. It's the issue of deciding what to focus on, when multiple items are competing for the 24 hours we have per day. Most life-advice, as the article, starts off with stating the conflict and immediately jumps to the conclusion. The hard part is in the middle.
Personally, I came to the conclusion that everything I postpone to a later stage in life might just as well never materialise. If I can't live with that thought, then it has to be done concurrently.
That's probably different for short-term project that the article uses as examples, but these typically aren't the items I'm conflicted about.
> Personally, I came to the conclusion that everything I postpone to a later stage in life might just as well never materialise. If I can't live with that thought, then it has to be done concurrently.
Sheryl Sandberg recently gave a talk to Inc. where she used the term 'ruthless prioritisation' to describe her decision-making process. It basically comes down to finding the best thing you can do and making a lot of tough choices.
Now, she was discussing this concept from a business point of view, but speaking as someone who works from home, minds children, and runs a house, it also resonated with me. I have a long list of things to do on any given day, and only a certain number of hours in which to do them. Most days, I end up feeling guilty about not getting something done; it feels like I'm failing in one of my areas of responsibility. Or, worse, as you say, I try to get everything done concurrently and either fail or risk burnout.
The main thing that ruthless prioritisation does is give me the space to forgive myself for the things I couldn't do. I know that I calculated the best thing I could do on a given day and I worked on that. It makes postponing things a lot easier to handle.
Reminds me of John Doerr's advice on how to be successful: "Be ruthlessly intellectually honest about the biggest threat to your business and marshall all available resources to solve that." Rinse and repeat. The key is not just to do just one thing. You need focus and vision, then you'll get to your most successful as soon as possible.
That is the hard part I suppose. Figure out what matters to you, and prioritize accordingly.
As many books describe, you must figure out what story you want people to tell about you after you're dead. That is your ethos. Then you make a list of what you'd like to do, and then prioritize according to your ethos. Do you want to be a 2 digit millionaire, then you have to work towards that. Do you want to be a pillar for the community, then that guides you. Want to be a fantastic parent ect.
> If I can't live with that thought, then it has to be done concurrently.
What does it mean to say that you "can't live with" that thought? If in fact having that thought would cause your death, then I recommend avoiding death. However, if you are saying that figuratively, consider the possibility that you might be taking a less effective action simply due to your discomfort with the reality that we have limited time on this earth. Consider the possibility that you might be better off tolerating that discomfort and narrowing your focus to a few things rather than a dozen.
(Or maybe you're just designing a well-balanced week that is made up of tango lessons, a side-project, and your job. I dunno. You're an autonomous agent.)
Just yesterday I launched the launch page for my upcoming calendar as a backend service: https://blobcal.com/ ! CalDAV support is one of the features I plan to implement if there is demand.
But looking at your current app website, it looks to me as if you don't necessarily require to manage your user calendars. Just getting your app information in their calendars is probably enough, whatever 3rd party provider they are using? In that case https://www.cronofy.com/ might be a good fit.
