It’s been going on a while, but Joost from Appelboom’s ‘top 3 fountain pen’ video series has just landed on my radar.
The premise is simple: ask pen-celebrities like Figboot, Azizah, SBRE Brown, Scrively and Brad Dowdy to record videos talking for about 15 minutes about their top three pens.
I wasn’t invited to participate… Continue reading
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I read a book recently on algorithms, and it discussed a category of problems called “optimal stopping”. Optimal stopping is all about finding out when to, well, stop in a pursuit.
How many candidates do you interview for a job before making an offer? How many new restaurants in a city do you try before… Continue reading
As is my way, I went to Japan with an exhaustively researched shopping list. I knew which items I wanted to investigate, I knew where was likely to stock them, and I knew roughly how much they were going to cost. But I still gave myself a few surprises.
Inks
Tokyo is the home of… Continue reading