Editing The Pen Addict 273/transcript (section)

== Notebooks ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay, good, because that means you can keep your notebooks in regular rectangular shape, because apparently thinkers require triangular notebooks.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. So, I'm going to jump in right now. Okay. I'm going to stop you right here. I purposely didn't put this in the show notes the last few weeks, because I didn't want to talk about it. And you and I have not discussed this, but you clearly knew what I was going to say about this, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Look, people want to make stuff. I get it. I get it, right? Like, I understand it. We both do this stuff. And I appreciate that. You know? Yeah. And, like, if you think you have a great idea, go for it. Like, all you're going to do is just not get there, right? And as long as you haven't sunk a ton of money into it, which you shouldn't before a Kickstarter campaign anyway, like you shouldn't put your life savings into something, then fine. But sometimes you have to ask yourself the question of why doesn't this thing currently exist? And this is one of them. So, this is a Kickstarter campaign, which still has 27 days to go, for the Slice notebook, which is a notebook for thinkers. This notebook is a triangular notebook, which opens up to become a square notebook. I don't understand this. I don't know why anyone would need this notebook. Like, it doesn't make sense to me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It seems more of a usability issue than a usability, you know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Benefit.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Improvement or benefit, yeah. It seems very, very challenging. I'm clearly not thinking enough to be able to use something like this. And, plus, isn't notebook for thinkers already taken by Baron Fig? It's like you could have looked at that a little bit more before dropping that in your tagline.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I might suggest that that is why it's in there. Yeah. Right? Like, as opposed to just being simultaneous creation.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But then that makes you question it even more, right? If, was that done purposefully? Because they want to get someone else's mojo. So, yeah. That's not cool. But, you know, like you said, I don't want to dissuade people from doing things that they believe in. And Kickstarter is the perfect place to do that because you're going to find out pretty quickly. If you have something or if you don't. Yep. And I think this was at least a 45-day project. If not, I don't know if they do longer than that. This has been around for weeks. And they still have 27 days to go. And they're only about half their goal right now. Yeah. August 15th. Which is only $5,000.