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# Town Hall #12: WONTFIX

[^note]: [Subscribe to Taylor's Town Hall via email](https://newsletter.taylor.town).

[^note]: P.S. If you want to hear what my voice sounds like, check out
[my recent Changelog interview](https://changelog.fm/546)!

Guess what? You can slap a
[WONTFIX](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wontfix) on b\*llshit
whenever you want.

"I _should_ text that dude that I met in SF. But I don't need more friends right
now. WONTFIX."

"I _should_ finish the project I started. But I'm bored of it. WONTFIX."

"I _should_ go to my grandma's birthday party. But she's not particularly fond
of me. WONTFIX."

Learn to say "no". Set boundaries. Deny obligations. Dismiss friends and
conventions and dreams and expectations. If somebody demands too much of you,
you can WONTFIX that entire relationship out of existence.

Your time is scarce; nobody can guard it but you.

But don't stop there! Protect your time _from yourself_. Don't squander your
life on sidequests.

Consider your to-do lists, wish lists, bucket lists, etc. -- what tasks will
matter in 5 weeks? 5 months? 5 years?

Do things that matter.

What would be wonderful?

## Projects

- published [the scrapscript guide](https://scrapscript.org/guide)
- launched [scrapscript community](https://scrapscript.discourse.group)
- made [WorstPress](https://github.com/surprisetalk/worstpress)
- built [blogs.hn](https://blogs.hn)

## Writings

- ☆ [When to Build Millennia Sewers](/millennium-sewer)
- ☆ [No More Bargain-Bin Kisses](/bargain-bin-kisses)
- [I wasn’t ready to start a tech conference](/outland-wasnt-ready)

## Recommendations


[^note]: You can also scour my entire history of [book reviews](/books),
[album ratings](/music), and [active podcasts](/podcasts). You may also want to
[read about my rating system](/2-stars).

### Music {music}

|       |                                               |
| ----- | --------------------------------------------- |
| ★★★★★ | JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown :: _SCARING THE HOES_ |
| ★★★☆☆ | Simon & Garfunkel :: _Sounds Of Silence_      |
| ★★★☆☆ | Pinback :: _Autumn of the Seraphs_            |
| ★★★☆☆ | Home Is Where :: _I Became Birds - EP_        |
| ★★☆☆☆ | Brett Dennen :: _So Much More_                |

### Books {books}

- ★★☆☆☆ _Kafka on the Shore_ by Haruki Murakami :: I totally get that this book
  is subtle and clever, but sorry, it didn't really make feel anything. And the
  sheer volume of media references made me feel like I was reading _Ready Player
  One_ for self-aggrandized Mensa members. The
  19-year-old-philosophy-student-sex-scene from _Kafka on the Shore_ embodies
  much of Murakami: pretentious, captivating, and horny.
- ★★★★☆ _A Man Called Ove_ by Fredrik Backman :: Heart-warming dark comedy about
  a grumpy old man who wants to die.
- ★★★★☆ _Paper Menagerie_ by Ken Liu :: Great short story collection exploring
  China, technology, and the power of words.

### Videos {videos}

- ☆
  [DOMi & JD Beck - The Flintstones Theme - 10/12/19 - at Blue Note NYC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgmxftiC34Q)
- ☆
  [Shawn Douglas - Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins & Bret Victor - Dynamicland](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXiVOmaVSo)
- [Ólafur Arnalds live from Hafursey, in Iceland for Cercle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMCiAKNUpTY)
- [Christian Schafmeister | Atomically Precise Catalysts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQgkvghzW0M)
- [here comes the boy (transcribed)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khyRyFQ5S7c)
- [Soup Luncher](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a3xvjo1wc0)
- [That's not my problem, it's your's.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSfsWFUmaX8)
- [standing here i realise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zu6Jt4wtWQ)
- [monkey with guts theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6uN9xYUMxE)
- [THE LAST DREAM HANDS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlU-v3p_NIQ)
- [All of the pipe sounds ASMR good for sleeping](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQvGUyxbxWc)
- [Goodnight!.... No! AAAHYE, AHHYE!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ytAyEK6eSg)
- [Extreme Japanese Tire Ski Jump Rolling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj5T6rQjh9E)
- [This is serious we could make you delirious](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LECSVlc6O1g)
- [Caroline Polachek - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XYyDsl14E4)
- [Inside A Super Yacht Designed For And By An Architect (Yacht Tour)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgfGSt6pkdU)
- [Country Roads Let's-a-go (Better version)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOCgjuu0xeA)