"The best time to plant a tree is fifty years ago. The second best time is right now" - essentially don't worry about what you could have done better, or what could have been, make now and the future as good as you can
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"If you don't fall off occasionally, you're not trying hard enough" - originally told to me in the context of learning to windsurf (I still can't windsurf), but applicable in a lot of areas. This doesn't mean try to fall off, it means failure is a natural part of growth, not something to be shunned
‘You’re just an NPC in everyone else’ life, no one really cares about what weird shoes you wear, or whatever. No one’s remembering, don’t worry about it’
Really helps out in the world really, it’s kinda true.
Oh I find this one to be bs. There are incredible things in this world that could have been meh or horrible and that changes the meaning in both quality and quantity. For example when lincoln made the continued subjugation proclamation.
“This is going to be with you a long time, Jean-Luc. A long time. You have to learn to live with it. You have a simple choice now. Live with it below the sea with Louis, or above the clouds with the Enterprise.”
Does a poem count? Ozymandias has stuck with me forever.
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Fun facts time! There are actually two versions of Ozymandias, one written by Shelley and the other by his friend Horace Smith. They had a competition to both write a poem with the same title and subject matter, which I think it’s fair to say Shelley won. But anyway, here is Smith’s version:
I’m with you, the community management aspects of the UI could do with some love.
My quick thoughts:
Sorting by the columns in the list of communities page
Have the search field not jump to the generic search, but instead apply a filter to the table (which can then also be sorted by the columns)
In the Subscribed communities sidebar, also have a search field that alters the list of communities to only those that match the search
In the same sidebar, allow users to place communities into folders or lists that can be folded or expanded so that users can easily navigate to user defined subsets of their communities. Currently it’s a flat list alphabetically sorted.
Either in the side bar or the communities list page, list the number of posts in that community today. I don’t know how viable this is, but each community’s sidebar shows usage data, including the number of users/day, so something like this must be possible.
Much more ambitiously, and it’s already in the GitHub issues but I’m mentioning it here anyway, 4 above naturally leads to providing a feed for only a selected user defined folder/group/subset of groups, so that they’re not merely for organisational purposes but like multi-reddits a nice way of customising your feed.
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