Rare Pattern

These are posts that originally appeared in my longtime blog Rare Pattern.

Six notebooks compared: Leuchtturm1917, Rhodia, Midori, MUJI, Northbooks and Moleskine [updated]

A review of some popular bullet journal notebooks. [*UPDATED with a new journal I’m very excited about.*]

Guarantees

Photo: Richard Elzey [CC] I’ll be an entrepreneur … if you pay me to do it. I’ll paint the picture … if …

Guarantees x

And now Prince

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016). Let’s just agree that 57 is too young.

Bowie

When I saw the news on Twitter that David Bowie had died, I started to cry. It was the middle of the night, but I couldn’t sleep anymore. I tossed and turned with “Heroes” echoing in my head.

Photo of old-style doorbell mechanism, with a large tarnished bell, and metal striker connected to electrical coils

Bother me less (or: I don’t want your notification’s nose under my attention tent)

I’d love to be able to have multiple levels of urgency settings smartly applied to the things that interrupt me.

two illustrations of corporal punishment

Building a better superego

’Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions, a tradition floated by best hopes and intentions for the future … and …

Building a better superego x

I first came across Lagrangian Points many years ago in Arthur C. Clarke’s novel A Fall of Moondust. It boggled my young mind, picturing satellites orbiting in seemingly static positions around the Moon!