Happy New Year, or your main project for 2015

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

As usual, in the last days of the outgoing year, I summarize and check with the plans that I built at the beginning of the year. Surprisingly, there were many plans: personal, work, sports. Everything that was planned was fulfilled. Absolutely everything! Well, except that I never managed to master the blind ten-finger dialing. And so everything was done. The effectiveness of the editor-in-chief of the productivity blog is still high. But something I and we all lost this year. Something that is not worth a single goal. We have lost the world.

Peace is not only when bombs don't fall on you or someone doesn't die nearby. This is the concept of a finely tuned world in which everyone has a place, everyone's life is filled with meaning and the media picture of the world coincides with what is really happening. The world is also when you do not spend hours on news, arguing in the comments with strangers on topics in which you do not understand anything. A person living in the world falls asleep in a couple of minutes, he dreams of busty beauties or slender youths, mountains, fields, victories or children with smiles.

Wherever you live - in Russia, Ukraine, USA, Germany or somewhere on the islands in Asia (and more and more people around the world read Lifehacker) - you are united by two things. First - you read and, most likely, think in Russian, second - there is no peace in your soul. And God forbid that only in the soul. Therefore, this is my advice to you who are making plans for 2015 today.

Write in the first paragraph: find peace again.

In the country, in the city, with neighbors and relatives, with oneself and with strangers on the Internet. Think back to the days when you argued about Windows vs Linux, Mac vs PC, iPhone vs Android, Turkey vs Egypt, or downshifting vs corporate career. Only here you generated thousands of comments per hour, and that was great!

We exchanged all this for war and became unhappy. They even forgot how to hide it, filling it with stupid selfies with smiles, beautiful food, moronic pseudo-inspiration and re-posts of sarcasm, which we began to confuse with humor.

Let's remember again what the world is. I promise that both I and the Lifehacker editorial staff will look for him with you and will definitely find him. For we simply have no choice.

Happy New Year, and take care of yourself.