# 2016 Year in Reverse

Originally published: 2017-01-02
Canonical URL: /2017/Jan/2016-year-in-reverse/

([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2015/12/2015-year-in-reverse/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2015/01/2014-year-in-reverse/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/12/2013-year-in-reverse/).)

So, 2016 was an interesting year for me. (It was an interesting year for a lot of people.) I moved to Berkeley, [landed 19 commits in the Rust compiler](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commits/07191e2b?author=zackmdavis), and had my trust in the sanity of the people around me re-shattered into a thousand thousand bloody fragments. (The pain of this last is exactly what I deserve for allowing the trust to re-form after the last time.)

In 2016, this blog saw _77_ posts and _65_ comments. Among these—

It turns out that [not everypony can be like Applejack](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/12/an-element-which-is-nameless/). [I have money](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/12/philanthropy-scorecard-through-2016/). I [went to a _Star Trek_ convention](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/12/joined/). [Bros](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/12/ecstasy/) will be [bros](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/12/alpha-gamma-phi/). I took a [break from blogging](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/10/hiatus-i/) following [a moment of liberating clarity](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/10/late-onset/). I [went to RustConf](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/rustconf-2016-travelogue/) and [San Francisco Comic-Con](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/is-there-affirmative-action-for-incompetent-crossplay/). Some [have](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/concerns-ii/) [concerns](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/07/concerns/). You miss your beloved [exactly because you can't model them well enough to know what it would be like if they were here](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/07/vingean-principle/). [Destined best-friends-"forever" are still subject to the moral law](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/05/ineffective-appeal/). The map is [_usually_ not the territory](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/05/correspondence-theory/). Living well [truly is the best revenge](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/05/living-well-is-the-best-revenge/). It turns out that [thinking sanely about politics has a surprising number of parallels with writing a chess engine for fun](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/02/missing-refutations/) (although the former activity is far less common). I'm [kind of an asshole](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/02/i-have-the-honor-to-be-your-obedient-servant/). There exist some [less-common reasons to detest American football](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/01/two-point-compersion/). [If you wait too long to write something, you might lose your chance](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/01/ideas-have-expirations/). [Trade-offs and competitive forces continue to shape our lives even if we would prefer they somehow didn't](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/01/dismal-science/).

What can readers of _An Algorithmic Lucidity_ look forward to in 2017?

Well, it's looking to be a really exciting year for me, both intellectually _and_ biochemically, for reasons that I can't talk about because I'm trying to minimize the sum of number of friends lost and bricks thrown through my window. (Only two so far!)

So, I don't know; maybe this'll become a math blog or something.