Jamie Thingelstad

“Not being busy is a competitive advantage.

Most people are so strapped for time they can’t take advantage of lucky opportunities or quickly resolve unexpected problems.

Maintain a bias toward action, but leave room for the unexpected.” — James Clear, 3-2-1 Newsletter on July 22.

There is a lot of wisdom here. Managing your time, and not being fooled into thinking that business is value, is critical to making progress on the goals that really matter for you. This is true in all aspects of life.

The Magic Pines garden is really revving up now! I think we may have planted a bit much. The tomatoes are like a wild rave gone out of control, the zucchini are sprouting like crazy, and the pole beans are out competing the corn!

I joined a Zoom meeting today and André Burgaud had this great background with a terminal screenshot. I had never heard of The Zen of Python before. 💙

~ jthingelstad$ python3 -c "import this"
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

Graphic owl mural framed perfectly by window at A-Mill Artists Lofts.

The Pillsbury A-Mill looks great at night.

Great LIVE performance by Tina Schleske, her sister Laura, and band at the Aster Cafe tonight.

Damselfly (I think?) hanging out on the Big Blue Stem.

Sun setting behind sailboat on Cannon Lake.

I shared this photo on BitClout and a couple of hours later it hit the global feed and Ani15 posted a painted reply to it.

What a great image and I love the creativity in the response! Sent some 💎 in response.

Interesting to watch this weed harvester working to clean up Cannon Lake a bit.