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Making a claim that something will never be the case can feel like an invitation for the universe to prove otherwise. Fortunately for us, Swift lives up to this higher standard thanks to the unlikeliest of types.

Void has no members: no methods, no values, not even a name. It’s a something more nothing than nil.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s memoir Small Fry is one of the best books I’ve read this year.

“(I am writing this across the room from an absolute unit of a black lab, whose name I imagine to be Bear or perhaps Winchester, whom I am summoning the energy and wherewithal to go up and pet.)”

Each quarter Chris Yeh and I convene about 20 of our friends on the peninsula and 20 of our friends in San Francisco for a conversation over lunch. Each lunch, called the Junto, has a theme. So far…

“As a small business owner (@tattly) I am always trying to support other small businesses. In this thread I'll mention a few small online shops I love in context of holiday season gifting. Add your recommendation in the thread?”

Tomorrow's the last day to back The Peach Pack, Ami's followup to You Think You Know Me, a fun and thoughtful game worth supporting.

At the service, I read the eulogy below, which tried to explain why he was special to so many of us. Writing it was easy, at least in part because he wrote the best bits himself. The hard part was reading it. He laughed at his own jokes and at yours. He made it very easy to love him.

“Open sourced a small tool I use to put "Busy" events on my work calendar when I create events on my personal calendar, powered by @IFTTT and Amazon Lambda: https://t.co/22MCaIgbP9 It's run 718 times over the past year and a half with zero maintenance!”

“I’m neither wise nor smart enough to answer the question Is Amazon good for Seattle? But the position of most non-Amazon tech companies in Seattle is that they’re thankful for Amazon’s presence, if for no other reason that they act as a lightning rod for all criticism of Seattle’s rapid upheaval.”

“my next game project--- the ground itself -- is this one session table-top storytelling game for 2-6 players, about specific places over highly variable time periods. it uses accessible materials (deck of cards, coin, 6 sided die, paper) and takes a few hours to play”

“An NPM package with 2,000,000 weekly downloads had malicious code injected into it. No one knows what the malicious code does yet. https://t.co/V4rdenu7Bm”

“trying out a new avatar for a bit. i've been thinking a lot about what it means that i don't feel comfortable with my own face and why i generally feel more comfortable writing through a pseudonymous identity, and how that often feels more real and genuine than my own face.”

i cant take this right now im going for a fucking walk— i n n e s (@innesmck) November 26, 2018

"Even under winter’s tightest fist some light still slips through to you, and isn’t that a miracle?"

there we go pic.twitter.com/EEzW6DGu3u— everest (@everestpipkin) November 24, 2018

“@anildash @KristyT I don't even think this is really about whether an org is good or bad. I see this as human nature. People who proclaim themselves vividly as X get *really* defensive when called out on not behaving true to X”

“I let my work seep into every hour that I had previously kept sacred as mine. When I walked home from the office, or did chores around my apartment, I listened to the political news that I had missed while working. When I slept, I was visited by my projects and colleagues in my sleep. When I ran in the park in the morning, instead of seeing the trees, I envisioned tasks I planned to complete later in the day.” “This house has weathered the upbringing of two children and one divorce.” “Eleni and I are still close friends, but we no longer do each others hair.”

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There's also a useful version of such critical remarks which can be made. One wants two things: (a) remarks which help people understand their own potential better; and (b) remarks which help people better understand what's involved in working in a particular field.— Michael Nielsen (@michael_nielsen) November 24, 2018

Has anyone written a psychology paper about the Instagram stories “viewers” section— Nicole He (@nicolehe) November 24, 2018

80. Poetry. Like this by e. e. cummings. pic.twitter.com/MXinHotAIF— mb (@mb) November 22, 2018

If you’re looking for some ways to use the Shortcuts app, here’s a thread of examples:— Matthew Cassinelli (@mattcassinelli) November 8, 2018