A good while ago, I wrote a blog post called Softwares, where I laid out my basic workflows for a lot of different applications and why I liked them. I figured I'd revisit that topic now, more than three years later.

Sadly, looking over that post, it seems like very …

In the spring of 2004, Jan Schakowsky, a Democratic congresswoman from Evanston, Illinois, told me a funny story about startling President Bush during a visit to the White House. She was wearing a big, blue "OBAMA" button. This was in the early days of Barack Obama's …