In defense of the slow, inefficient read … and the long point pencil
Efficiency and speed are quite different where reading is concerned. Each has an important role to play in making sense of what I read. I need to read a book twice to get to both headspaces. And that involves revisiting passages over and again, each time with new tools added.
Seeing the fun in formative mess, a mnml digest
Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On the importance of failures. The centrality of making mistakes for teaching and writing better. And the fun to be found in formative mess.
A six-pen repeat with aspirations of empty pens
I find myself continually drawn back to my desk. The six pens I inked last week continue to soldier on, holding my interest. Solid justification to write on with last week’s sextet.
Colorfully uncommon commonplace notes
I’m a firm believer that a searchable analog database requires color. Two colors, to be precise. And a threaded keyword system so I can search notes by topic. All in one common place. A commonplace notebook.