Tomas Reyes

Lisbon

Tomas Reyes

Writes about paper, ink and the habit of keeping notes.

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A notebook is a promise to your future self

The trick, if there is one, is not to be more disciplined. It is to make the first twenty minutes cheap enough that you are willing to spend them badly. A page you are allowed to r

A notebook is a promise to your future self

Paper

Seven pens, one survivor

I keep a running list of the small decisions a project asks for, because the list is the only honest record of where the time actually went. It is never the big architectural choic

Seven pens, one survivor

Paper

Keeping a commonplace book

There is a particular kind of quiet that arrives about twenty minutes into a piece of work, when the part of you that keeps checking whether the work is going well finally gives up

Keeping a commonplace book

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