Scriveiner's Journal

Single-tasking: a pen as the way to regain control over your attention

The average knowledge worker switches between tasks or applications every three minutes and five seconds. That figure comes from Gloria Mark's research at the University of California, Irvine, and ...

The Urge to Know Everything

The world is changing, and you are watching it happen It usually begins before breakfast. The phone is already in your hand, but not from boredom, rather from something closer to duty. The world sh...

Why Your Fountain Pen Writes Differently on Different Paper

  After the festive season, with several new notebooks and journals finding their way onto my desk, I was reminded once again how differently paper responds to variations in nib size and ink formul...