Ali Smith’s potent and luminous novel How to be both has been sitting on my desk for several days as I wait to return to it and write something even remotely coherent. But I realize now that will be impossible: How to be both is the hand-waving, self-stuttering kind of book where I cannot possibly hold myself back....

I have had a task since February of 2017 in Asana to see if I could figure out how to rename desktops. Desktops are what appear when you press "F3" at the top, which have the default names "Desktop 1", "Desktop 2", etc. I knew it was possible because there was an app called "TotalSpaces" that does this (among many...