I find this retro-leaning blog absolutely cheeky and delightful. I even found myself shopping for a typewriter last night, but I’m sure there’s something I can try at the office. The mechanical thunk you get using a mechanical typewriter is wholly satisfying, in the same way the shutter in my mirrorless camera is.
Adjacently, see “On the Reverse Flynn Effect,” where Cal Newport quotes James Marriott:
“Print requires us to make a logical case for a subject. A really significant feature of books is that if you make a case in print, you have to make it logically add up. You can’t just assert things in the way you can on TikTok or on YouTube…print privileges a whole way of thinking and a whole way of processing the world that is logical, that is more rational, that is more dense information, that is more intellectually challenging. If you lose these things in our culture, which I think we really are in the process of losing them, it’s not surprising that people are getting stupider…and that we seem to find that IQ is declining.”