2017 in Links
For years I’ve been keeping all of my links on Pinboard and this year I decided to start publishing them at Link Thing. I also publish my links in common formats that can be downloaded. I thought it would be fun to look at all the links from 2017.
In 2017 I saved 913 links. I most frequently create links at 8pm and 10pm, with 7am coming in next. It’s interesting that I did a link in every hour of the day in 2017. Why I was linking something at 2am instead of sleeping is a different topic.
Friday is the day that I save the most links. This is a little skewed by my reading workflow which includes staging links in Safari Reading List to queue up often before reading. After reading I may save a link. I almost always clear my reading list out on Friday night, before I publish my Weekly Thing newsletter.
I definitely started linking more once I started publishing the Weekly Thing in April and my link blog. Prior to that the only links I would have saved were ones I would revisit, after that I started saving links for anything I felt was worth highlighting and sharing.
I saved links from 523 different websites in 2016. That’s just 1.75 links per website on average. I like the diversity of sources that represents. The top 30 websites represent 298 links, or 32.6% of all links. I was surprised to see Medium at the top of the list.
651 of the links I saved were secured with HTTPS, a full 71% of all links for the year. Hats off to everyone for making the web more secure and private.
I was curious how my links spanned various top-level domains. 85% of links are in the .com TLD. There are 29 top-level domains that I only bookmarked one or two links from.
It would be fun to take this corpus of data and do further analysis. Some graph representation of sites through domain names, analysis by countries or even sentiment and topic analysis of the links themselves would be cool. I’ll defer that to next years post.
One of my favorite Saturday morning spots to do some reading.
Gas pumps with screens blaring advertising should be required by law to have always present off buttons.
I have been impressed with the Anki Cozmo — it’s amazing how much character this little robot has! 🤖
Getting the whole family shoveling the snow makes it very quick! 🌨🌨🌨
Espresso crema.
New light hung! 💡 This is about the extent of my handyman skills. 👷🏻♂️
Trying my hand at some Nordic Waffles this morning with the help of Stine Aasland’s We Love Waffles!
Pleased with my first go at Nordic Waffles! Tasted delicious. Kids liked them too. May cut the cardamom back a touch next time.
Went to Young Joni for dinner for the first time. 🍽 Delicious food and amazing location. 👍🏻
So many books. Wild Rumpus Books. 📚
A smartphone filled with social apps is a manifestation of Buddhist monkey mind.
I continue to see more people covering the camera in their laptops. How come nobody covers the forward facing camera on their mobile phone?
Fog on Longboat Key, Florida.
Enjoying 10% Happier on audiobook. Approachable introduction to mindfulness. 📚
We went to the Bakken Museum today which was very fun! They have a demonstration or “game” there where you play another person by quieting your mind and making the EEG reading go down, moving a ball towards the other person. Tammy grabbed this great picture of me quieting my mind… 😊 “Mind like water…” 💧
Fun with photo booth at Pizzeria Lola! 📷
Entering the world of sous vide cooking with my new Joule. Love that I even get to update firmware on this! Has WiFi and can be controlled anywhere from iOS. 😁👍🏻
Just finished module 1 of The Focus Course. It is a slow start but I see it building some foundational things. Looking forward to the rest of the modules.
This was a fun surprise on my Apple Watch this morning. Was this only a Siri face feature?
