I love Apple stuff because it's beautiful and functional. I get that there are implications to this, and I view those implications as a larger question of how a person wants to live in society. I think that tradeoff gets lost much of the time -- you can have perfect privacy by living in a shack in the woods, but is it worth it? Just like being in a romantic relationship, participating in the world necessarily requires compromises, and I'm willing to make a lot of them.

One thing I'm sensitive to, lately, is to better understand where and when I'm making those compromises, and choosing, in isolated ways, different spots along that gradient. I feel pretty good about this, for now. We'll see how it unfolds.