"Make sure you don't get so good at survival that you don't forget to live and thrive"—@lokman.org on the latest episode of @globalvoices.org's Global Voices Insights.

Watch the full episode at www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCIF...

It’s not an addiction. I can stop buying them anytime.

I love legal pads for their cheapness, decent-quality paper and even their yellowness, but hate that the pages are designed to be written on on only one side. Enter the notebook made from legal pad sheets! A bit over-engineered for the purpose of scrappy note-taking, but #bookbinding makes me happy.

Today I finished the 5-year journal I started making 15 months ago. I printed the signatures in September 2023. Then they sat in a pile until yesterday, when I stitched and glued them. And this afternoon I made the covers and bound the whole thing together. The long game is a thing.