It doesn’t keep
Reflections on how I use paper and notebooks.
analog productivity
Shuffle
Fifty-two cards. Four suits. Two colors. Three faces, the tens, the aces. Shuffle. Deal. How’s your hand? No good? Call a mulligan. Shuffle. New hand. Better? Worse? With a good shuffle, odds are your deck is in an order that has never existed in the history of cards, let alone those cards. The variables (number … continue
No. 36 | Seven reasons to use a pencil
“Over the past couple of years, I’ve become known to friends, family, and colleagues as a bit of a pencil enthusiast.”
No. 32 | Seven things I want for my Fortress of Productive Solitude
There’s no way you’re going to complete delicate repairs on a Phantom Zone projector at an open-office desk in the Daily Planet bullpen.
No. 19 | Seven objects that are almost always with me
1) A Kokuyo Neo Critz pen case People ask about this thing all the time. It’s much easier to maintain a routine with my notebooks when I always have the same stuff with me — pens, pencil, 3M tabs, a little pencil sharpener, etc. It unzips to stand up as its own pencil cup. A very good travel companion. … continue
No. 17 | Seven goals for this new year (and how I did in the last)
1) Read 40 books. I have this broken out as two goals: read 20 works of non-fiction and read 20 works of fiction. I was in a bad reading slump before 2016. I read, certainly, but it wasn’t a strong habit, and I wasn’t keeping track. I wouldn’t be surprised if I read as few as five books … continue
No. 15 | Seven lists I keep
My PEOPLE list is sort of a grown-up version of covering my bedroom with pictures cut out from magazines. Each list item is simply the name of a person whose life and/or creative output I want to turn my attention to from time to time.
No. 03 | Seven things that help me think
1. Traveling. 2. Making a mindmap. 3. Index cards.