The FSF unanimously elected a new president today (their senior system administrator) who spoke earlier. They also have an executive director who spoke today...
Best advice I ever got: try to set aside a few thousand dollars in an IRA (a mutual fund for your retirement). Because you'll have 50 years for it to double, double, double, and double. Contributions are even tax-deductible -- and you can withdraw them penalty-free for medical expenses, education, and first home purchases.
Also, keep in touch with friends from college/high school. For career reasons, they can help you find jobs -- but it's also good for your mental health.
"...the novel’s striking cover, too, sprang from the photocopier’s imagination. The Art Deco painting, called Celestial Eyes, resulted from a training set with a single painting by the Spanish artist Francis Cugat, coincidentally also titled Celestial Eyes."
These days there's a lot of "burnout" going around. (And also "dopamine depletion".) That can make you feel mentally tired.
People usually recommend a break from work -- get offline, touch grass, maybe take a vacation. Make sure you're getting enough sleep and exercising (and eating well). And find someone you can talk to. Doing things all on your own, without talking it out with some friends, can sometimes warp perspective...
You'd probably want to make the newsletter free (and then charge people to add job listings at the end.)
I'd like a newsletter that tracks upcoming changes to the major languages, new features in IDEs, major conferences, interesting online comments on the social media feeds of various language creators or core maintainers. (Some of the day-to-day growth of programming languages really isn't being tracked anywhere...)
