Life

It’s 2:30 AM. I got into bed at one, put my phone down, closed my eyes, and my brain started thinking on its own. The more it thought, the more awake I got. Still not asleep. So I got up to write. Yesterday at noon I was too tired to keep my eyes open, so I went down for a two-and-a-half-hour nap. Woke up with a model scoring bug waiting for me, chugged a cup of coffee to snap myself awake, and thought nothing of it. By the time the cup was empty it was already past four, and I went straight back to digging through the problem. ...

My MacBook Pro is almost five years old, and its keyboard had become hard to look at. The keycaps were shiny with oil, the gaps were packed with dust, you could faintly see hairs under a few of them, and a couple of caps had actually cracked. Every key felt different, and all of them felt awful. Last week I tried a new MacBook Pro at the Apple Store. Looks-wise it is the same machine with small tweaks, but the keyboard feel was on another planet compared to my five-year-old one. The new keys feel perfectly consistent, with a matte texture; mine are polished shiny and honestly a bit sticky. ...