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Thirty-three slots across a desk, the office around it, and the kit that leaves the house. Each slot is a job; each pick is the thing I’d buy again. The open ones say so.

33 slots · 23 picked · 2 on approval · 8 open

We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us.

John M. Culkin · A Schoolman’s Guide to Marshall McLuhan · 1967
A commonplace book keeps what is worth keeping. This one keeps the tools, and files each corner of each room under a line someone wrote long before the things in it were made.
Plates 1–3 · not to scale Picked On approval Open

Three rules

  1. 1.Buy it once. The best version, bought the first time, is the cheaper one.
  2. 2.A slot is a job, not a wish. If nothing needs doing, the slot stays empty.
  3. 3.One in, one out. A new pick retires the old one, and the catalog says so.