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Book Review: Dealing With Difficult People – Harvard Business Review
Dealing with Difficult People is part of a series of small booklets on the topic of emotional intelligence that the Harvard Business Review published. It’s a collection of essays, each of them short,...
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My New Weekly Review Format
I previously discussed how I plan my quarter, my week and my days, but there’s another side to planning: reviewing. The goal isn’t to set out a plan, then attempt to follow it and disregard any...
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Book Review: Looking for a Ship, John McPhee
John McPhee is a master writer, and Looking for a Ship is a master narrative. Accompanying second mate Andy Chase during the dying days of the American Merchant Marine in the late ’80s, McPhee crafts...
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Weekly Update: Model Sketches
It’s been a hectic week as my team at work is basically crumbling: our new senior member is leaving after just two months, the team lead is leaving after a bit more than a year, and the other team...
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February 2025 Currently Inked Pens
I have finally written dry all of my Inkvent 2024 fountain pens, which means that after two months I get to write with a whole new set of fountain pens and inks. I normally don’t spend too much time...
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Weekly Update: Model Sketches Take 2
It’s nice to have new pens and inks in rotation. I’m enjoying Diamine’s Writer’s Blood more than I expected, Diamine Autumn Oak is fantastic with a Waterman superflex nib, and Pilot Iroshizuku...
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How I Use My Notebooks: Twitter Replacement Field Notes
I used to be a heavy Twitter use. I discovered the service pretty early on through webcomic artists like Scott Kurtz, and I found the challenge of crafting short tweets to be a fun writing exercise....
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Weekly Update: Ink Swaps and Quick Sketches
Earlier this week I went to a standup gig – a NY comedian was trying out new material, and it was an interesting (and funny) experience to see him work. Before the show I had about 5 minutes to sketch...
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Zebra 301 A Ballpoint Pen Review
I mostly use fountain pens when I write. If not fountain pens then gel ink pens. I rarely write in pencil, but I often sketch with pencils, and sometimes when I plan, I pencil things in. Pencil is...
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Weekly Update: 10K Race, Field Notes Sketchbook and Poetry Anthology
Another busy week at work coupled with a packed weekend means that this update will be bullet-point style: I ran my first race of the year, a 10K in what turned out to be surprisingly warm weather....
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One Week 100 People 2025: Day 1
I didn’t have much time to sketch today so I only got 8 sketches done, but I’m more concerned with getting the sketches done from observation than with getting them done in time.
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One Week 100 People 2025: Day Two
I went out for 45 minutes after work and sketched all of these as fast as I could. I only stopped when it got too dark outside. Yesterday’s sketches were done with a Staedtler 0.5 pigment liner on a...
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One Week 100 People 2025: Day Three
It was dark and cold once I finished, and my fingers had trouble grasping the pen because of my neuropathy. My original plan was to finish all 100 today, but I only got to 78. Tomorrow I have very...
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One Week 100 People 2025: Day Four
I have a super busy day so I took my sketchbook (Moleskine pocket watercolour) to the gym and did sketches 79-90 there, and then I completed 91-101 sitting on a bench on my way home. So 100 people...
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One Week 100 People 2025: Day Five
Last official day of the challenge, though I plan on doing a few more sketches tomorrow. These were all done at the gym, from 102-112, including a failed sketch. My favourite on this page is 111....
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Weekly Update: One Week 100 People, Newly Inked Pens and Preparing for a...
I finished the One Week 100 People challenge on day 4, but kept going for day 5 (which was yesterday) and added a few sketches on day 6 (even though the official challenge is 5 days long). It was the...
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Currently Inked Pens March 2025
Of February’s pen lineup only two pens remain inked, the Parker 51 with Waterman Purple, and the Leonardo Momento Zero Bohemian Twilight with Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo. As they’re both running low on...
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A few months ago I published an overview of my new weekly review format. I had been successfully using it for a few months at the time, and I have since continued to use it until about a month ago....
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April-May’s Currently Inked Fountain Pens
In the middle of April I inked up a bunch of new fountain pens, and at the end of the month I added two new fountain pens to this rotation. At the rate I’m writing with them I assume that this pen...
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Big Celebratory Birthday Update Part 1
It’s been a long while since I’ve posted a weekly update, and it’s my birthday week, so to celebrate I decided to write 43 points (split up to several posts to make them more manageable), in no...
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