David Allen's Getting Things Done as a Method is still the GOAT of self organization for me. I personally use a hacked together Obsidian Notebook because it was the only tool that was flexible enough for me.
"Our annual income for 2023 came in just slightly below our projections, with a small difference of less than 500€. Our expenses came in below target due to a conservative planning approach that generally assumes an expense maximum, but in line with our general expectations.
Both outcomes demonstrate our ability to make accurate forecasts — an important ability given our 2023 operational goal of outspending our annual income for the second year in a row, which we have achieved, in order to reduce our financial reserve (which remains high from large one-time donations in earlier years) in accordance with our non-profit organizational form."
A German e.V. can't keep arbitrarily large reserves indefinitely. It needs to use its money for its stated purpose, or else it may lose its tax status. KDE's plan makes sense.
Legos Quality in the last decade has been on a steady decline to an absurd degree. Most of their sets now are substandard in part count, part quality, full of stickers and it's all star wars and other tie ins while the prices skyrocketed. Meanwhile the Competition has stepped up significantly and there are now multiple manufacturers selling lego compatible pieces and sets of equal or higher quality for significantly less.
I buy the occasional set for myself and then quite a few for my kids every year. I'm not seeing it myself, the quality seems as good as ever, and the designs better than ever. It's never been a cheap toy, and yeah prices have gone up as with everything.
I looked at them awhile ago while lamenting that Lego doesn't do a Star Trek line. But you can't tell me their designs are better. I watched the video of the 2 chaps going through the sets and they're just not things of beauty. Whereas I just put together the Lego Concorde and it looks, as much as possible, like the thing it's supposed to be.
Comparing an old police station with the modern one but at 3:57 Left side Modern Police Station 100€ with basically no parts, right side old station from the secondary market for 45€. It's literally twice the size and part count.
China cloning/being compatible with Lego isn't exactly a surprise, or I expect, particularly difficult (as they already manufacture plenty of plastic items in various quality/form).
