I'm breaking every NDA on the planet by posting this and I don't think things will ever go well for me once it's out.

That doesn't matter though.

So all that matters is that you believe me.

Those shiny new AirPods you got all sleek and slim and white as fresh bone.

Yeah, you need to stop using them.

Now, to be safe you should throw them away and burn them.

Burn them, hurt them into the ocean or bury them deep at a lock box full of salt.

Another thought of tossing out those tiny little slices of the future that you wear in your ears is painful but it must be done.

If you don't listen to me, if you keep your AirPods, as soon as you'll start to hear...

You'll start to hear terrible whispers.

But as if you aren't hearing them already.

I'm sure I sound crazy.

At first I thought maybe I was going insane.

That would be a far more comfortable scenario than what's really happening.

I thought working in Apple would be my dream job.

For a few months, it truly was.

Life was like some high-tech minimalist fairy tale.

Everything was bright and polished.

Everyone I worked with was sharp and brilliant.

The cafeteria food was amazing and then...

Then one day about four months after I started to Apple, I stumbled upon some dead code.

It was just a few orphan lines and a massive, briar patch of an update.

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