So much of modern life is manufactured urgency. We perpetuate that by taking it seriously. So we're passing this hot potato back and forth. If anybody could just snap you out of it, you'd be like, “That email didn't need to exist. We didn't need to do that. We didn't need that meeting.” We're rising and grinding ourselves to death, because nobody knows what the alternative is. I'm out here with 55,000 saying it's possible. You can make a living, you can have a life, and leave 55,000 emails unread with a big fuck off.

Music app: Spotify and Apple Music

We do have Spotify, but my wife will often kick me off of it. I'll be in the car and then all of a sudden Beyoncé starts playing and I'm trying to listen to dad rock like The National. I don't think my wife knows we have Apple Music. I like knowing that my little secret is Apple Music.

Computer model: 2022 MacBook Air

It's a MacBook Air from 2022 with the M2 chip. I had a slightly thin kind of fun one that snapped in my backpack. So I just bought this pretty thoughtlessly, which is kind of a shame. This was my “I just need a laptop” laptop.

There have been other laptops I've had far more feelings about. There was a MacBook Air 11-inch that I still think about. It was the smallest thing I've ever seen in my life. And then there was a MacBook that was 17 inches. It was huge. I still think about those computers like they are old friends.

I do feel like there’s planned obsolescence too. No matter how many times I clean my Mac and try to keep things minimal, it's going to start fucking up pretty soon. And that stops me from having a relationship. It's like having a girlfriend you know is going to move back to Barcelona.

Last person you FaceTimed: My wife Valerie

I was solo parenting on Sunday, and we FaceTimed my wife, Valerie, so my daughter could say hi to her. Which really is one of the great achievements of modern life, is that it does kind of synthetically re-create—from my daughter’s perspective—“I saw mom, and she was there.” I also FaceTime my mom. I like to say I FaceTime my mom's forehead. She can't frame up properly.

Last thing you Googled: Reverse image search of a muskrat skull

My daughter found a little skull in nature and we used Google Images to tell us what kind of animal it was.