I usually eschew a 6000-word-plus essay but I found this one too compelling to navigate away from. John Lanchester of the London Review of Books spent that number diagnosing the ills of modern finance as he considered two books detailing the lives of a pair of financiers, assessing their effect on life from a 10,000-foot perspective. This gut-punch comes early, but sets the stage for the milieu i... [Read More]

Here’s the thing. I’m trapped on Apple platforms. I’m probably never going to go elsewhere. But until now, it never occurred to me that I should. The signs have been increasing over the years. I think it started when Apple first broke out Services as a category of revenue. I think that was in 2015 or so, at least according to the earliest mentions I can find on Six Colors. Then, a year later, Ser... [Read More]