Celebrating The Unique Pleasures of Analog Writing
Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain – Here’s how to do it — Neal Stephenson Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist...
An idea: buy one good wooden pencil and one metal sharpener that fits the palm. Source: The Pencil | Hunter Gatherer 21C
A couple weeks ago, I decided I wanted to start keeping a film journal to track my increasingly frequent movie watching. Previously, I’d just been keeping a running list of the films I’d watched, but a log, I figured, would give this pursuit a greater sense of intentionality and focus. Searches for “fountain pen–friendly film...
College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work | AP News “Everything slows down. It’s like back in the old days when you really did one thing at a time. And there was joy in doing it,” said Phelps, who brings in her two children, aged 7 and 9, to serve as “tech support”...
The Penumbra Print Shop Today, I’m launching a new line of business: Penumbra Print Shop, a manufacturer of stationery with interesting capabilities. Why stationery? Because I find myself compelled by print products that are not just “for one thing”, but open to many surprising uses. Because stationery can be so clever, so beautiful. Because last...
For your consideration: Pen plus paper and physical books were the original “spatial computing.”
AI doesn’t belong in journaling | The Verge At my demo, Google told me the idea was to make journaling easier — much in the way that Gemini simplifies other writing tasks, like emails and document summaries. Sometimes, I was told, it can be hard to know what you should journal about. Looking back can...
An advertisement for Royal Typewriters from Life Magazine, January 6, 1941.
In Praise of Pencils – MacSparky Overall, there’s an appealing simplicity to pencils. There’s no cables or batteries or sync issues—you just pick it up and write.
Typewriter Repair Costs and Valuation: Professional Shops versus Collectors versus First Time Buyers | Chris Aldrich For the sake of clarity, I’ll be addressing the majority of the typewriter sales in the secondary market which are broadly the most common typewriters made for the commercial market after about 1925. Most of these were manufactured in...