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Tim Cook calls it a “big week.” I’d call it Apple’s “budget week.” Or value offensive. Either way, the first week of March 2026 is not about Apple introducing flagship devices. Instead, it is about Apple showing off its operational scale, taking on the value section of the market, and…

★ HazeOver — Mac Utility for Highlighting the Frontmost Window:

What HazeOver does is highlight the active window by dimming all background windows. That’s it. But it does this simple task with aplomb, and it makes a significant difference in the day-to-day usability of MacOS. Not just MacOS 26…

Last month, I moved into my new home in the woods. There’s no internet and no phone service here. It’s so productive.

At first I thought I couldn’t move in without internet. But now I prefer it this way.

Media silence creates a vacuum, which your own thoughts expand to…

Apple is still proud of Liquid Glass. Found on the iPhone 17e mini website. 😵‍💫

My sleep schedule for last week was all messed up. I didn’t get to sleep much. On Saturday, I woke up early and drove 1.5 hours to Whitetail to teach snowboarding. I had a morning lesson with 8 kids from age 7 to 12. Luckily, I didn’t have a lesson…

Great time at the Nasdaq Marketsite today!

I wrote last month about the announcement economy, where bombast and news releases are meant to dominate news cycles. Being right or wrong doesn’t matter. Whether the money actually arrives is a different question entirely. OpenAI’s $110 billion funding round is the purest example yet. We (including me) are…

With nudges from Lisa and many other sources, I’m again realizing the importance of hydration to general health.

Today this led me to this Reddit thread that provides an Apple Shortcut that will let me log water consumption to Apple Health. I installed it. It works. It’s simple and, because…

In the first few minutes, Ruby says to me, “This is like The Giving Tree“, and by the end, I was like, “OK, you’re right.”