Own the Tools

David started us­ing a pa­per dic­tio­nary:

My only re­gret is not re­al­iz­ing sooner how much I value qual­i­ties other than speed in my dic­tio­nary­ing — clean­li­ness, trans­parency, loy­alty to my best in­ter­ests, not to men­tion the re­fresh­ing phys­i­cal­ity of the whole thing.