{"id":20181,"date":"2026-01-15T06:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/?p=20181"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:46:17","slug":"the-pleasure-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2026\/01\/15\/the-pleasure-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pleasure Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MosesShaggy-1024x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MosesShaggy-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MosesShaggy-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MosesShaggy-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MosesShaggy.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s just January 15th, and I suspect I&#8217;ve just read the best writing about productivity I&#8217;ll see all year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to quote from Oliver Burkeman&#8217;s latest piece for <em>The Guardian<\/em>, but&#8230; there&#8217;s too much. With his usual wit and calm-headed reason, he keeps landing hits that make me think &#8220;Wow! Yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When so many articles are simply stating yawningly, annoyingly obvious truisms, and AI is delivering foamy chicken nuggets of averaged thought, it&#8217;s an utter delight to encounter a writer like Burkeman, who not only has an incisive mind but also writes with such personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I highly recommend this piece:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/jan\/03\/secret-being-happy-2026-simpler-than-you-think\">The secret to being happy in 2026? It\u2019s far, far simpler than you think\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just January 15th, and I suspect I&#8217;ve just read the best writing about productivity I&#8217;ll see all year. I wanted to quote from Oliver Burkeman&#8217;s latest piece for The Guardian, but&#8230; there&#8217;s too much. With his usual wit and calm-headed reason, he keeps landing hits that make me think &#8220;Wow! Yes!&#8221; When so many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}