What Trump did not say is the problem, argues David Frum in *The Atlantic*:

He offered no guidance or policy on how to prevent the spread of the disease inside the United States. Should your town cancel its St. Patrick’s Day parade? What about theatrical productions and sporting events? Classes at schools and colleges? Nothing.

He offered no explanation of what went wrong with the U.S. testing system, nor any assurance of when testing would become more widely available. His own previous promises of testing for anyone who needs it have been exploded as false. So what is true? Nothing.

And on the one thing he did say?

There was one something in the speech: a ban on travel from Europe, but not the United Kingdom. It’s a classic Trump formulation. It seeks to protect America by erecting a wall against the world, without thinking very hard how or whether the wall can work. The disease is already here. The numbers only look low because of our prior failure to provide adequate testing.

The Worst Outcome

Paul Krugman, writing for the NYT on a Sanders Presidency:

And if you’re worried about his economic agenda, what’s your concern, exactly? That he’ll raise taxes on the rich part way back to what they were under Dwight Eisenhower? That he’ll run budget deficits? Trump is doing that already — and the economic effects have been positive.

Bernie Sanders Isn’t the Left’s Trump

Keep It has been my digital junk drawer and reference filing system for the last six months or so. Today’s update adds the ability to add a sketch inside of an otherwise typewritten note, which is a welcome addition that brings feature parity with Apple’s own Notes app. There are other notable features, including automation enhancements.

I’ve been working on a review of the application, as it is in a class that I’ve always found useful since adopting Yojimbo many years ago. Stay tuned.

Keep It 1.8

Speaking of iPadOS, I recently read about a useful gesture that involves one of the OS’s most simple gestures: the long press. To wit, in OmniFocus, you can collapse and expand all projects in a folder:

There is a corresponding keyboard shortcut as well. Like the shift-click, command-click, option-click, and other combinations, you can in fact discover quite a bit by experimenting.

Joe Pinsker, writing for The Atlantic, on the dreaded Sunday Blues:

“This feeling, whether we call it anxiety, worry, stress, fear, whatever, it’s all really the same thing,” says Jonathan Abramowitz, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Psychologically, it’s a response to the perception of some sort of threat.” The perceived threat varies—it might be getting up early, or being busy and “on” for several days in a row—but the commonality, Abramowitz says, is that “we jump to conclusions” and “underestimate our ability to cope.” For most people, he reckons, the stress of Sunday is uncomfortable but ultimately manageable—and they end up coping just fine. (And just as with other forms of anxiety, some people don’t feel the Sunday scaries at all.)

This is a fascinating article in that it looks at something most people can identify with, but attribute to a multitude of different sources. From psychobiological to sociological, hypotheses run the conceptual gamut. I remember listening to Henry Rollins, no stranger to hard work, once blaming the feeling that set upon him on Sunday nights on “school damage.”

I was mulling it over today and concluded for myself that it’s the notion of a “weekend” at all that causes the feeling: if you’re hunting and gathering or farming or otherwise living life a little closer to the metal, you don’t think about things in terms of five-day work cycles. You do what you have to do when you have to do it. It’s an affordance of our modern era–where we work for someone else–that we standardize some amount of time off.

And as is noted in the article, a four-day work week would be very welcome indeed. Those feel positively luxurious.

Why People Get the ‘Sunday Scaries’