When people conspire to do good for each other. Also, Kevin Kelly "How will the miracle happen today", using Reminders to organize your to-dos, Booker Prize recommendations, Where are all the protest songs, 'remove before flight' tags from the Challenger, Maggie's link to Disney's most convincing illusion, and Batman testifies against ICE.

My second word for 2023.

Taking a breath between creating and editing. Also, beautiful photos of the photographer's mother's land, the creepy Ring camera ad, Ian McKellen acts out, the boo heard round the world (except in the US), Maggie's link to the Lunar New Year Mascot in China: Draco Malfoy, and organizing academic papers.

On making Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference truly WorldWide.

My third word for 2023.

Scheduling to-dos more successfully within the different parts of your day.

Restaurant quality in a home kitchen requires home techniques. Also, Auto-tuning congressional testimony, Zentangles, planning with DayParts, rehab to deal with a phone problem, limit your scream time, Maggie's link to an impossible ice cream trick, and 90% of woodworking is sanding.

Elena was the year of the rabbit - and other memories of the Chinese Zodiac.

Overcoming conditioning and assumptions. Also, I am ... Somebody, AI reading slop, a sliderule simulator, celebrating the life of Toni Morrison, the blessing of burnout, Maggie's link to a day of work at a fast food restaurant and a high end restaurant, and Stewart Lynch looks at autoclosures.

On the awesome responsibility of owning a gun.