Where craft meets cognition.
Why I refuse to commit to just one — and how I finally made it work. Hi. My name is Gray. I’m a compulsive notebooker. My problem isn’t money. I don’t purchase notebooks indiscriminately, especially since I’ve taken up the side-hobby of bookbinding. It means that my
Why tactile rituals create better thinking than perfect systems Ever been sorry when you reach the last page of a notebook? Or dropped it in a puddle, picked it up and waited for the pages to dry and then decided “$#@& it, crispy pages are a delight” and kept on
I have some exciting news! I'm in LA visiting my long-distance partner, and every time I do this I make a pilgrimage to this beautiful little shop nearby called Hiromi Paper. It's like a candy store for papermancers; weird paper, cool paper, beautiful paper, complex paper.
Right now, most of us have a particular, very familiar gesture that happens in liminal spaces... a checkout, at a stoplight, the daycare pickup line…we reach for our phone. What if, every time you instinctively reached for a moment of phone distraction -- you reached for your codex instead?
The Papermancy Guild Hearth will be going to a bi-weekly schedule starting today – no, wait, actually starting last week, making this the week that we will stay offline. To be honest, "bi-weekly" has always been a confusing term. Does it mean twice a week? Or twice a month?
