Making space for pace and for thinking, a mnml digest
A curated journey through five articles, posts and podcasts that are speaking to me this week. Pulled widely from a week’s worth of reading. Shared in ten sentences or fewer. A fun means of reflecting on the blogs I regularly read in a way that spreads the linky love.
My reading this week has me asking about pacing. The pace of accumulating new pens or inks or papers. The pace of researching new stationery. And the speed with which I jump across notebooks while thinking through my calendar.
Building the Perfect Notebook for Brainstorming: Quirky Refills and Erasable Pens (The Gentleman Stationer). Unpacking the best way to make a notebook work for me often involves carefully choosing layouts and setups that either speed me up or slow me down.
What’s What 6/25 — 7/1 (Line Variation). Careful considerations about when to speed up pen or ink acquisitions and when to brake are key. I appreciate Nate’s honesty with his own mindsets on budgeting. Quick rephrase: careful honest considerations are key.
Where Does an Inkophile Search for Ink and Pens (An Inkophile’s Blog). Acknowledging the focuses of my media intake is also a clutch strategy. I allow myself time apart from the steady releases of new pens and inks now and again — healthy breaths of fresh news.
Two boring pens that I like anyway (Extra Fine Writing). A great use of slow time, for me, is to revisit the mundane members of my collection. Fresh eyes often remind me of how much I enjoy simple pens like the Platinum Preppy.
Paper and productivity (Stationery Pizza). Transitions between analog and digital spaces are fantastic opportunities to change pace between slow work and fast thinking. Right on.
