Editing The Pen Addict 142/transcript (section)

== Cursive Project ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So you need you need to find this pen because you need to practice your cursive because there is an awesome project on Kickstarter right now for cursive logic. And you've seen a bunch of our friends share it. I'm sure, Myke, right? Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' People sent sent me a few times. Mainly people send me it to tell me to improve my handwriting. And I know all of those people. Well, Brad, I won't I won't engage.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. So you do need to improve your handwriting. I mean, that's a given. But and, you know, there's one way to do it. And this is by cursive logic. Do you do you don't write in cursive? Do you write in cursive?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think I mix between both.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' OK, that's right. That's right. You're very, very strange.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Sometimes capital, sometimes cursive.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I don't write cursive at all. But my kids are right at that age where they're like dabbling in cursive and they want to learn how they see this writing, this cursive writing, and they want to learn how to do it. And they're not getting taught that in school. So cursive logic is this Kickstarter that teaches you that it provides you a workbook that teaches you a new way to learn cursive. And I love how they titled this this project. It says cursive is endangered. Together we can save it. And it's true. I mean, you hear about all this drama, you know, all these big newspapers, right? You know, handwriting's dead. Cursive's dead. Pens are dead. Analog's dead. Right. I mean, how often have we died since we've been doing this podcast at least once every quarter or so. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So check out this cursive logic. It's really cool. If you want to know more about it, our friend Ian Headley did a great interview with Linda Shrewsbury of Cursive Logic. She talked with him on his blog, Pen, Paper, Pencils. And he did an interview with her about how this project came to be, what they're trying to accomplish, several videos, several shots of this in practice. And it looks really cool. You know, I've backed it. I want to get my kids interested in this and give them something to learn. My daughter's going to eat this up. But, you know, Cursive Logic is really, really close to funding and it hasn't funded yet. They need $25,000. There's three days left. It's at $21,000 right now. If you're interested in handwriting and keeping this kind of analog world going, take a look at the project. Watch the video and see what you think and consider backing it. You know, I haven't talked to them. They've sent me a few emails. I haven't really had a conversation about it, but it looked interesting. And so I've backed it and hopefully it will be successful. So it's just something I wanted to check out. Something I wanted to mention.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do you get a lot of like Kickstarter pitches?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Define a lot.

'''Myke Hurley:''' How many do you get a week on average?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, several. Several a week.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes, that's a lot.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, several a week. So, you know, I mean, I'm used to it by now. And like, hey, look, there's the next link.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm used to it by now and I can kind of suss them out pretty quickly, the legitimacy of them. Some I don't bother to respond. Some I'll say looks good. I'm not interested. Some I'll say tell me more. Some I'll say instabacked. So, you know, it's a lot, but that's okay. I like seeing the new stuff and, you know, it's cool. How about you? Do you get any of that stuff? I mean, not for like pen stuff, but just for like general stuff. You're into so many different things.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They're starting. I don't get many, but I'm starting to get some. So however these things begin, they're beginning.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know, like I get these random things. And I'm like, I don't even, I have no idea who you are. Like I have no idea how someone sent me one the other day where they were apparently following up to a previous email. I've never received or. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Right. So let me, let me put business Brad's hat on real quick. And if you are a project creator, please use common sense. Do not send me a form email. Do not say like you just had. Hey, I'm following up on the conversation that we didn't have last week. Be a person. Call me by the right name. You wouldn't believe how often that happens. Um, that's an instant delete. You know, tell me something personal that I need to know about your project. Don't form letter me. Don't wall of text to me. Um, it's really simple. Be genuine, honest, um, conversational, open. It's people, people are so bad at a lot of things. And this is one of those things that you don't have to be that bad at. You know, just, just come at me like a real person. And then we can probably have a conversation. And that's how I'm, let's my conversation start and everything else. I'm sorry. It gets, it gets deleted. I just don't have time for, if you don't have time for me, I don't have time for you. It's very simple. Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm talking to Dan Bishop directly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He's typing in the chat room. No, Dan is, uh, Dan does a good job. Dan does a good job. He does.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So on that, on that cursive logic thing, Myke, I've someone sent me this video. Uh, Brian sent me a video, um, email me a video and I haven't finished this video. I meant to do it before we started the show today, but it's called inbound. It's from Clive Thompson, who is a popular writer. And he did a whole kind of, it's like a 10 minute speech or 10 minute talk on.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's the, the title of it is how the way you write changes the way you think. I mean, it's definitely something we believe in. So I'll, we'll throw that in the show notes for everyone to check out. And I need to finish watching that, but he's, he talks about the same thing about how all the big news outlets are talking about, you know, the death of handwriting, the death of analog tools, things like that. So definitely worth checking out. So, all right. I got a few more things to get to. We're going to be able to get it done today, Michael.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm sure we will. But before we do that, I want to talk about our third and final sponsor for this week, our friends over at Pen Chalet. Pen Chalet sell authentic, amazing roller balls, fountain pens, ballpoint, mechanical pencils, and so much more. They have all of your favorite brands like Monteverde, Pelican, Lamy, Pilot, Namiki, Sailor, and Kaweco, and are, of course, an authorized dealer of all of them. They have special discounts all of the time. You can go over to Pen Chalet and see what sort of deals they're running. They're really great at all of that stuff. They have great deals for us. We'll talk about that in a moment. They're very fast and reliable customer service, as always. And they're always adding new styles of pens every single month. As well as the brands I mentioned earlier, Pen Chalet sells limited edition pens, as well as the accessories that you're going to need, like pen carrying cases, pen holders, refills, fountain pen converters, and so much more. Pen Chalet do sell internationally with very reasonable shipping rates, but of course, they also sell in the continental United States with free shipping on orders over $50. Pen Chalet has low prices on high quality pens, and they offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to PenChalet.com and use the code PenAddict to get 10% off your order, or click the podcast link at the top of the website and enter PenAddict for even more savings, as well as your 10% off. And those savings that you're going to find this week, still got some fantastic stuff over there. They want us to let you know, and you definitely should know, Pen Chalet still have the Kaweco Art Sport. They're still up there, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's such a hot pen. It's a really, really good pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And they're doing that at such a great deal. You can pick one of those up for $72.90 after the special sale and after the PenAddict 10% coupon. It's 40% off. They retail for $135. And we mentioned last week as well, the Platinum 3776. They have the regular and demonstrator versions. The regular version, so the non-demonstrator version is $108. After all the discounts, that retails at $200. And the demonstrator version is $135, retailing at $250. I believe, Brad, I'm going to say this terribly, the models that they have are the Nice Per Sai and Shoji models over at Pen Chalet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So those are the demonstrator 3776 models that they've made for the lakes, some of the lakes in Japan. And so they're this demonstrator. Some of them have kind of a blue tint to them. I actually own the Sai. It's one of my favorite pens. The nibs on Platinum pens are amazing. It's one of my favorite nibs. And, you know, unlike you, I'm a huge fan of the demonstrator. So I like seeing the ink in the converter in those pens. And I love seeing the nibs on all the Platinum stuff because they really, really work good. One other thing I wanted to show you, Myke, on Pen Chalet. Have you seen their fountain pen inks infographic? I almost called it ink-fographic, which maybe they should have done.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I remember Ron sending this to me. Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So did we talk about it? I don't think we even talked about it on the podcast yet.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know what? I don't think we did.