Having arrived at another point when I'm about to start a new job and it being a largely Python job, I decided to try and compile a list of resources, hacks and observations that make Python decent and worthwhile. For a long time it's been the subject of my Lisp-centric bitching about the inadequacy of everything non-Lisp. It can be an alluring pose to adopt, similar to how some people find it existentially sooting to become professional victims. Don't get me wrong, I probably still think the Lisp family of languages is the bee's knees and I enjoy very much using CL as my goto language, but I've noticed the lispiness (of a job, library or project) have in the past tended to cloud my judgement and override other parts of the picture. To the extend I was willing to contemplate an objectively inferior position just to be able to hack Lisp.

Trying to concentrate on the bits I find thought-provoking, gratifying or just plain fun is my attempt to exorcise out the creeping proclivity for cynicism that I've seen develop in too many a colleague at various workplaces. You probably know the rhetoric - today's technologies are inferior, we're way past the prime of our technical culture, the world is going to hell and dragging us with it. True? Maybe to some extent. Depressing? Definitely. Not that we should be willfully blind to negative tendencies around us - on the contrary. But my optimism needs fuel and I've been running on empty for too long, hence this attempt at fueling it. It can be fun to adopt a certain smugness and view the entire technological landscape through a lens concisely embodied by the following image: Below I will genuinely try to rekindle my appreciation and sympathy for Python and maybe bring it a little closer to how I see Lisp in my head.