Touching the back wall of the Apple store

The Apple Store used to be the embodiment of everything I didn't have when I was growing up - status, the lives the people in the sample pictures had, any sort of individual money or agency - now I have an Apple Store in walking distance and can buy whatever I want. It's a nice shift, even though I still don't have the life those actors in the sample pictures or Apple ads have.

> even though I still don't have the life those actors in the sample pictures or Apple ads have

(nobody does -- don't forget there are bounce lights and 20 people just out of frame...)

Next you’re going to tell me Jony Ive didn’t spend every day in a featureless white room meditating on the ideal form of a laptop or phone or MP3 player (a rounded rectangle, it turns out)

I think that's totally accurate, actually.

if TikTok is any indication it is the typical life of a Google engineer

It’s wild how things change, right? When I started using leadsapp, I realized small steps can add up to real progress. Having access so close makes a difference, even if the big picture feels far off.