This is the goodbye letter I sent during my last week at Apple.
Hello! After almost 15.5 years, my time at Apple is drawing to a close. My last day will be Thursday, April 18th. If you know me, you’ll know I’m rarely at a loss for words. Yet I struggle to find vocabulary when trying to express how much Apple has meant to me. When I was about 13 my parents had the gall to take me on a road trip in a deeply embarrassing, wood-paneled station wagon. Happily we were the proud new owners of a Blueberry G3 iBook. In the backseat of that tan monstrosity (you know the type… with the third row of seats that faced backwards?) I hunched over the blue clamshell like a witch at a cauldron, ignoring the passing landscape and cringe-worthy parental oversight. My teenage angst sent me exploring deep into the bellows of Mac OS 8.6. This port in the Trapped-In-A-Station-Wagon-In-Nebraska Storm is where I fell in love with Apple. I began telling grownups that one day I (me! A little girl from a small town in Minnesota!) would work for Apple. I didn’t always believe in myself, but my parents did, moving heaven and earth to get me opportunities and hardware. While my career trajectory perhaps got its start thanks to imprisonment in a wood-paneled station wagon, some of my earliest memories are of sitting on my dad’s lap and drawing in MacPaint. This is all to say that Apple has shaped who I am from the very beginning. And just because my employment with Apple ends Thursday, the incredible things you all do ensures that Apple will continue to transform my life, and the lives of so many others. I’m very excited for what I have coming up next, but for now, thank you. These past 15 years and five months with each of you have been a joy and a privilege. I can’t believe I’ve been so lucky. Sincerely, Betsy Langowski
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I read a lot; I read literally every day. Sometimes for decadent hours. Sometimes for only a few minutes snatched at bedtime. Since November of 2020, every book I've finished I've chronicled in my book journal with what I call my "fifth grade book report" (nomenclature thanks to my friend Bekah!) In my terrible mathematician's handwriting I scrawl out a brief summary, my thoughts on the book, and a rating. I also capture how I found the book and what else was going on in my life, making it an odd sort of diary via the novels I devour. Here's a sample: This is The Collected Regrets of Clover (a lovely book) that I read at the end of October, beginning of November. Apparently while reading it I visited my parents, participated in OrangeTheory's "Hell Week," and had a nice dinner out at The Brickhouse. I gave it 4/5 stars, though in retrospect I think it's more deserving of 4.5 (a hard feat). For anyone who is looking for books to read (or avoid) I thought I'd provide a list of all the books I read in 2023 with their ratings! I have been woefully negligent in updating my review blog, souloflit.com, but I'll add a few choice reviews there too over the next {insert time period that feels realistic}. Also, please remember that my ratings are not absolute judgements of quality. For example, a well-done work of chick-lit may score high for excelling at its craft or delighting me in the moment, while objectively being of lesser quality than a well-renowned novel I thought was boring. Put another way, sometimes the right trashy book finds us at the right trashy time.
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