Beloved Artifacts

 Creating systems often requires objects. The perfect clipboard, journal, app, guidebook can be life changing. The tricky thing is that with growth comes a need for newer, better systems. The previously perfect items become artifacts. The way they changed your life makes it hard to let go of them, but they can take up a lot of desk space. Some objects are lucky enough, or are well-designed enough, to prove themselves useful over and over again.

At the moment a beloved object that always proves its worth is sitting on my desk with a chip in its exterior held in place by Scotch tape. It is the standard of perfection except it is a bit clunky and it is fragile. For now I will keep using it in my office. I don’t have anything that equals it, so I spare it.