Santa Claus, hobbits and the space pen
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
This post doesn’t really have anything to do with what this site is about.
Sometime during your childhood you realise that Santa Claus and hobbits aren’t really real. A bit later, maybe in your twenties, you work out that Marx asked the right questions, but might not have hit upon the right answers.
Advancing age brings further bitter-sweet advances in maturity. I had just such a moment today.
Merlin Mann ruthlessly strips away a myth that has sustained me for many years. I have always believed that the Fisher Space Pen is the archetypal example of American extravagance and waste, the icon of a culture gone mad with abundance.
Tags: fisher, myths, Productivity, space pen
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