Person of Note?

My hyper-fixation of the moment: paper notebooks. Like almost all my hyper-fixations, I’m in the “thinking about it” and “buying stuff” phase, which tends to be where the process stalls out before being forgotten. But right now, it has the dual-pronged appeal of starting down the road to being better organized (and a more fully-realized human being, one step closer to achieving my ultimate Buddha status), and discovering a whole weird subculture that I’d only been vaguely aware even existed. It’s also spinning me off into thoughts about convenience, speed, and impermanence,1 things I wouldn’t have thought that much about until I entered middle age. Fossils Tell of Long Ago The attraction of a paper notebook; I’ve started down this road several times over the years. The featured image with this post is a photo of all the notebooks that I’ve got nearby, not counting the ones stashed away in boxes. I’ve been drawn to the idea of having a personal notebook — as opposed to the big…