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  1. 3 min read

    The Unhurried Newsletter

    A note on writing to a schedule you set yourself, and why the best newsletters read like letters, not broadcasts.

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    Footnotes Are a Form of Honesty

    The footnote lets a writer admit doubt, digress, and cite a source without breaking the sentence that needed to stay clean.

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    나는 왜 아직도 만년필로 쓰는가

    가장 느리고 잘 새고 가장 비실용적이지만 여전히 쓰이는 필기구를 위한 변론, 그리고 이 도구가 제 몫을 해내는 이유.

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    The Commonplace Book, Revisited

    Before there were note-taking apps there were commonplace books, and the old method still beats most of the new ones.

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    A Typography Sampler

    One essay, deliberately overloaded: headings, quotes, footnotes, lists, a table, and some code, in service of a single argument.