June 2026
On keeping a notebook
A notebook is not a record so much as a workshop. Most of what goes in will never be used - and that is the point.
Attention is the one resource we spend whether we mean to or not. What we choose to give it to - and what we refuse - quietly shapes the whole of a working life, and most of us never decide it on purpose.
Continue reading →A notebook is not a record so much as a workshop. Most of what goes in will never be used - and that is the point.
A good question is patient. It asks to be lived with for a while before it asks to be answered.
The first reading is for the story; the second is for how it was made. The real lessons hide in the second.
A short note on the quiet, unfashionable power of a practice kept up long after the enthusiasm wears off.
The Folio is a small publication about craft, attention, and the work of making things. Written slowly, meant to be read slowly.