From If You Have Writer’s Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying:
Sometimes, to be a resident of polite society, you have to lie, and this feels unpleasant for a moment but is usually bearable. But lying to an empty page alone in a room feels awful.
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This is 168 stories, one per year from 1776 to 1943. Every person in them was real. Most of them you’ve never heard of: fishermen and farmers, shoemakers and mill workers, people who crossed oceans and some who never left their town. They are the people who made [my] four grandparents.
Apple sent their WWDC 2026 invitations built around the Swift logo. Swift is the programming language developers use to build native Mac apps. I’m definitely reading too much into it. I’m going to do it anyway.