This is the James Bond game we’ve been waiting for

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This week, I’ve been reading about Victor Wembanyama and mahjong and Merlin Mann’s pearls of wisdom, watching more of the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals than I expected, watching way too many videos about lighting a home studio, spending too many hours tweaking the settings in Vivaldi, belatedly cleaning up my Google Photos library, and finally – finally – getting my home office organized. Ish.

I also have for …

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