The Erasable Podcast

Counterpoint: maybe you _do_ need a giant Bic Cristal lamp

Episode 243 is up! 📻 erasable.us/243 This is a fun episode. We talk to @gbullard.bsky.social about his new book "Against Convenience". It's not a nostalgic treatise on why we should use analog tools. It actually goes deep on the modern conveniences in our lives and what we give up when using them.

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Fun facts: • Tomorrow is our 12th anniversary! • We’ve published 233 episodes • We forgot about episode 68: went straight from episode 67 to 69 (nice). • We’ve published 279 hours, 2 minutes, and 4 seconds of audio: More than 11.5 days’ worth. • We’re (hopefully) releasing something cool tomorrow.

The world is on fire, but we’re here with a little bit of inky joy: we talk to Ian Schon of SCHONDSGN to talk about his gorgeous fountain pens and the design and engineering challenges he faced while making them. Have a listen: erasable.us/233

Episode 227 is live! After a month full of travel from our intrepid hosts, involving everything from counterfeit theatre tickets to marriage proposals to a literal train wreck, we’re back to regale each other with stories from our travels, and, of course, the stationery we picked up along the way.

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This is really fun — iA, the company that makes a really gorgeous minimal writing app (and also a very, very expensive but very nice notebook), is running a writing contest to win one of those notebooks! ia.net/topics/the-2...

Such a good cozy sci-fi book, and a quick read!