- A toddler’s giggle
- A third-grader’s pout
- Foam mat floor tiles
- Child locks
- Apple TV+, including but not limited to Ted Lasso, Tiny World, Mythic Quest, Fireball, and Wolfwalkers which even before being released has provided hours of entertainment for my children by the virtue of its most excellent trailer
- Essential workers
- A working internet connection, on weekday mornings in particular
- My coworkers, each and every one
- Overcast
- Belgian beer, more specifically Duvel and Chimay Tripel (aka Chimay White)
- Wireless buds, even though they remind me of that one episode of Doctor Who
- Fresh towels
- Reliable pens (this one too, and here’s a good mechanical pencil)
- Good journalism
- Blurred backgrounds (but I may soon start using these instead)
- Physical mute buttons
- Reliable cars
- Fast pipelines
- Thoughtful interviewers
- Saturday afternoons when we’re all back from a long walk outside and tired enough to have a good appetite but not too tired to spend the evening doing something fun knowing there’s also Sunday to look forward to
- Long sentences
- Good endings