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The Kaweco Liliput Fountain Pen
Just dawned on me the other day that I don't currently own a fountain pen so I'm starting a short list of considerations with the Kaweco Liliput Fountain Pen.
Any other recommendations for a first time user of fountain pens?
Take the Stairs
We end up with needlessly difficult lives because we have trouble recognizing ease when it’s hidden behind difficulty. It’s hard to see, for example, in that difficult moment when you’re about to walk into a gym for the first time, that you are taking the path of greater ease: if you get yourself through that short, difficult experience, your life quickly begins to lose a lot of difficulty. Beyond the gate, your health situation is easier, dating is easier, clothes shopping is easier, and so is virtually any physically demanding task you can think of, possibly for the rest of your life. All of this ease is bought for three hours a week, which themselves quickly (and permanently) become many times easier than they were the first time.
Amazing piece about the changes in the Internet since the glory days of blogging.
The centralization of information also worries me because it makes it easier for things to disappear. After my arrest, my hosting service closed my account, because I wasn’t able to pay its monthly fee. But at least I had a backup of all my posts in a database on my own web server. (Most blogging platforms used to enable you to transfer your posts and archives to your own web space, whereas now most platforms don’t let you so.) Even if I didn’t, the Internet archive might keep a copy. But what if my account on Facebook or Twitter is shut down for any reason?
— The Web We Have to Save by Hossein Derakhshan
The Bradley Mountain Waxed Canvas Utility Roll is one of those products you're going to own for a very long time. Love those kind of products.
Michael Wade sums up well what being productive means:
This means working with deliberation and not by impulse. I must elude a multitude of distractions.
— Going Down the List
by Michael Wade
Book Recommendations by Patrick Rhone
Thanks for the recommendation Patrick!
I had a good week off with the family last week, but it’s back to work this morning.
The Medium Debate Continues
I'm still not a fan of Medium for blogging, but that's just my preference. It is a great place for reading though.
The 32-Hour Workweek
I work four days a week when a client allows it and most usually do but I will make exceptions for projects that are on a limited timescale. Working five days a week for a couple of months is nothing to me but for full-time employees it can amount to a daily grind which can take its toll on employee productivity.
We’ve proven that you can take it from an experiment into something that’s doable for real companies and real people in highly competitive markets.
— The Case for the 32-Hour Workweek by The Atlantic
Watch the video at The Atlantic for more.