I am, by nature, optimistic. My optimism has been shaken in the last year. I understand better now how optimism is empty without WORK. Optimism isn't a strategy, it's a guidepost. https://t.co/ggglTqYeJR

— Emily Lakdawalla (@elakdawalla) November 8, 2017

As one of my drill sergeants during basic training used to say, “Hope isn’t a plan!”

Usually followed by some cursing.

That drill sergeant was a pretty awesome guy, really.

The difference between Windows and Mac OS is that if Windows can choose to do something stupid and counterproductive, it does that every time.

Mac OS while not always being the most intuitive, at least tries to do something that makes some sort of sense. It has a unified paradigm and logic, while Windows seems to have been created in comparison by a poo-flinging chimp.

The more I use both OSes — and I use each at least eight hours a day — the more I despise Windows, especially in its latest iterations.

I can’t use Linux full-time because like Windows its support for high-DPI and mixed-DPI screens is stuck in the previous century.