Listen

To be in silence is to be present. To be in silence with another and feel comfort and peace is to have true companionship. The gift of presence is the greatest of gifts. For one is giving the most finite and precious of resources — time and attention. Things that are priceless.

I remapped CTRL to ALT and ALT to CTRL on my work PC to get sane keyboard shortcuts. If you live in PC Hell during the week, AutoHotKey is kinda great¹.

My buddy Jack is going on his own Twitter sabbatical:

I'm going to bail on Twitter and other social media outlets until this is over. See you on the other side.

My own sabbatical has been going on since March. Even back then, the political nonsense was getting out of control. There's nothing like an election to make rational, interesting people utterly obnoxious. Mute filter exhaustion definitely contributed to my need for a break.

I think the internet's fuss over Apple's current line of Macs is comical. To those who are currently typing up their Medium thinkpieces on how they are almost ready to switch:

Have you even used Windows in the last few years? I mean, really used Windows? Have you used a PC laptop in the last few years with their generally terrible trackpads? Have you relied on generally terrible Windows software?

I use Windows every day. I use a PC every day. I rely on Windows software to do my job every day. All of it is terrible, and it makes the imperfect Mac and the imperfect macOS seem pretty great.

But go on. That thinkpiece isn't going to write itself.

Sometimes the Club MacStories Friday email is good. Other times, it's shockingly good. I don't have a lot of Internet Subscriptions¹, but the value I get from these emails is worth far more than $5 /mo.²

The Workflow Corner is something I looked forward to every week.

I'm not sure if I feel better or worse after I add an entire TaskPaper file's worth of tasks & projects to 2Do.

One on hand, everything is more organized. On the other hand, it's easier to see how much I have to do.

The Kinesis Advantage2 is on it's way back. It would probably be great in the long term, but the learning curve is just too steep. The placement of the modifier keys and the non-staggered layout did me in.

Tomorrow, I try my freshly delivered Matias Ergo Pro Low Force Edition. Wish me luck.

I don't know if you're supposed to put an entire micropost into a blockquote or not, but I'm doing it anyway.

My goal, as a writer, is to always try to make the best thing I've published the last thing I've published. I feel today's letter meets that goal:

He's not wrong.¹ Go sign up.

My only problem with 3D Touch is when I press firmly onto the screen of my iPads¹ and nothing happens.

I not really surprised that the sugar industry did this. I'm more surprised that we still use faulty / influenced research data from 1967.

How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat - The New York Times

The documents show that a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation, known today as the Sugar Association, paid three Harvard scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 in today's dollars to publish a 1967 review of research on sugar, fat and heart disease. The studies used in the review were handpicked by the sugar group, and the article, which was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, minimized the link between sugar and heart health and cast aspersions on the role of saturated fat.