“I needed a pen that had just the right fine point. It's generous with the ink, but it doesn't explode on an airplane... The Arteza rollerball 0.7 fine. I just ordered a whole case of them because finally I got a pen I just love.”
The fine-point rollerball he finally settled on — generous with ink, no airplane explosions, no smear; he ordered a whole case.
“Craighill scissors... they're expensive scissors. It's like $50 scissors or something. And they show up and it is everything I could have hoped for... the way it slides when you squeeze them together to cut something is so unbelievably crisp, satisfying, smooth... I'm throwing away all my other scissors.”
Heirloom-grade $48 scissors with solid metal and a precise pivot — an unbelievably crisp, smooth cut that retired every other pair in the house.
“My real carve-out is I am recording this episode on a brand new MacBook Pro M5 Max. I clicked the biggest spec possible... getting an M5 Max revealed to me just how slow my 2021 computer was. And God, this thing is just such a beast.”
A maxed-out 16-inch MacBook Pro that made his four-year-old M1 feel sluggish — no waiting on anything anymore.