Welcoming summer with a custom and novel currently inked
I broke down my recent accumulation of Jinhao 82s into their parts. I mixed pieces and matched parts to craft two fully personalized Jinhao 82s. The process of building my own pens was immensely gratifying. As a healthy hobby should be.
Three kind angles on living for ink maximalism
I feel guilty cleaning out a pen that still has ink in it. The value of ink maximalism abounds in our shared online spaces. That intention to squeeze every ml of value out of the expensive colored liquids we fill our pens with seems to resonate with a lot of people.
I’m thinking philosophically as I rethink my mostly-full currently inked for next week. When is a pen empty?
The stumbles are the journey, a mnml digest
Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On how often unintentional mistakes lead to serendipitous discoveries. Accepting that as much joy comes from what I stumble into as what I plan my way into.
Celebrating a new job with all the cool new blue pens and nibs
Three weeks of interviewing for a new job kept my currently inked pens a demure, professional color palette. It’s time to whip out some novel color and a new wild nib grind now that I’m newly contracted and into my first week of summer break.