One New Desk, Three Modes
For the last few years, I’ve worked at a simple white Amazon Basics sit-stand desk. When I bought it, I was still deeply into the whole “minimalist” aesthetic, ...
Author: Shawn Mihalik
I Write Novels with Fountain Pens
Ricardo, over at Extra Fine Writing, asks the question “Does anyone actually use a pen to write a novel?” When I hear that some famous author drafts their novel...
Seeking ‘Warmth and Personality’ in the World of High-Priced Pens
Seeking ‘Warmth and Personality’ in the World of High-Priced Pens | New York Times Nice write-up about the London Pen Show in the New York Times: The consensus ...
Crosswords
A few months ago, my partner Mallory and I somewhat accidentally started doing the New Yorker crossword puzzle together. Fairly quickly, we were hooked, and now...
Explained: how you will get into vintage fountain pens | Extra Fine Writing
Explained: how you will get into vintage fountain pens | Extra Fine Writing You will not intend to buy Old Pen. You will attend the pen show intending to buy in...
The Benefits of Analogue Bleeding Back into Digital
After a year of exclusively using fountain pens and paper for my handwriting needs and foregoing any sort of digital tablet, I got an iPad Pro again a few days ...
There’s No Such Thing as a Blank Page
But despite the influence of Locke’s metaphor, there is no such thing as a blank page – not only because claims of blankness miss the watermarks or the fi...
The Encyclopedia Project, or How to Know in the Age of AI
The Encyclopedia Project, or How to Know in the Age of AI | Public Books It took two weeks for the World Book Encyclopedia to arrive at our doorstep in two thic...
They Just Work
They Just Work — From the Pen Cup But then I had to reconnect ALL THE THINGS to the network as the settings had changed — the desktop computer, my Kindle, the S...
The five-year journey to make an adventure game out of ink and paper
The five-year journey to make an adventure game out of ink and paper I couldn’t walk away from the pen and ink thing,” says John Evelyn, creator of The Collage ...