After many years, I have (finally) ported my posts from Blogspot to my static blog. Part of what took so many years was:

1. I assumed I needed to do something fancy to port them over.
2. My previous static blog engine (Frog) had a limited feature set, which meant that redirects of paths and whatnot was an exercise left to the user (i.e. me) and I never felt it justified the time investment to get create a workaround.

The answers to these two hold ups are:

If you couldn’t tell, the title of this post is a nod to “Mazlow’s hierarchy of needs”, a psychological theory about how we prioritize things as humans. This post isn’t about that theory whatsoever.

This particular hierarchy of needs has to do with prioritizing tasks to accomplish a goal. I am not the master goal setter in the world. I don’t claim to be some sort of planning guru. Far from it. But I have had a thought about a simple way to deal with task lists. It has all been inspired by conversation with my friend and colleague AJ and an article I read on Trello’s blog.

From what I have read, it seems that most people have an ultimate Zen moment with Lisp that makes the universe seem to fall into order (or, so says Eric S. Raymond). My journey with Lisp so far hasn’t been like that. Instead, it has been a number of smaller “Aha!” moments. In fact, I just had one today. Maybe my big Zen moment will come later. I guess I’ll just need to keep learning and see where the Lisp journey takes me.