I spent most of today cooking, which was nice. And the oven kept the house warm, especially as us in the Southern Hemisphere head into winter.

Rot is no good, sounds like a relief you got rid of that and a productive week overall!

I’ve heard a lot about habits and mentions of that book too! I found an article about his four laws – make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, and make it satisfying (ctrl+f to jump down to it) and the cues/cravings responsive/rewarding cycle, which kinda makes me want to look into it in more detail too. I hope the book was useful!

The weather this year has been crazy variable so far - even in New Zealand where it should be summer we’ve gotten some severe Antarctic cold snaps! I hope you’re keeping warm, one step at a time.

I’m a week late to the discussion but just wanted to add some context about the last line: this was the announcement in September 2023 about that, The Beehaw project is entering some significant challenges. I took some time away from the Fediverse myself and also hadn’t been keeping up with it much over 2024, but I guess the new year’s spirit pushed me into trying to make it stick again (here’s to better habits this year!)

By the way, I think you’re right about small community groups, they are definitely hard to run and I can understand why a lot of them moved to more-closed discord groups with closed invites instead. I guess there will always be different ways for humans to connect in the social ecosystem, so at least there will be something out there.

In any case I guess welcome back and I hope you can find some cool discussions here again!