In addition to his always prescient take on technology, turns out Om Malik is also a fountain pen geek.
From a piece titled The Patina of Words:
Maybe I love old things because they are layered with mystery, softened by time. Marcel Proust wrote, “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of how things were.” I like the idea that vintage objects carry not just history but imagination. There’s something profoundly human about loving things that have lived before us.
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