I was already pretty low in my estimation of LinkedIn, but this post gave me a little push to decide to close the account.

Most of the indicators you’re talking about are, in my opinion, superficial markers of adulthood. Do you show up for the people you care about? Do you fulfill your commitments? Do you look for opportunities to grow and improve? Do you do the hard thing you need to do instead of the easy thing?

These are the traits that make you an adult, not how many kids you have or whether you own or rent housing. You can have 10 kids or none and still be an adult. You can own, rent, or live in your parents’ basement and still be an adult. You can’t be making promises you don’t keep or always taking the easy way out and be an adult. Those other things are all vanity metrics.

Seconding Quartz, but I also wanted to share how I self-host all the services required. I self-host Forgejo and use obsidian-git to make it easier to push my vault changes to my self-hosted repo. The repo has a workflow that runs the Quartz build on any new commit, building to a location my web server points to.

It works pretty well. About 2 minutes after a change is pushed, the build with those changes is done and being served.