Sometimes I forget that I’m freckled. But then I sit for a close-up, and it’s inarguable. Witness:

I am modelling my new AirPods Pro, which I’ve been using for a week now, after a recommendation from my friend Sosi pushed me from cart, where they’d been languishing for months, to checkout. They arrived a few days later, and they are now seldom out of my ears.

While I like them as a music and podcast delivery system, the thing I like about them the absolute most is their noise-cancelling magic, magic that’s enough to have me wear them for that. I’ve come to learn, as a result, that there’s a lot of background noise in my life, slowly chipping away at my sanity. Cutting out that noise has mean measurable improvements in my work productivity and sense of general calm both.