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The Most Famous Pen in History Turns 100 This Year
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The Most Famous Pen in History Turns 100 This Year
By Brett Braley
I Moved To Ireland For a 3-Month Brewing Internship. Here’s What It Was Like
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I Moved To Ireland For a 3-Month Brewing Internship. Here’s What It Was Like

I spent the last three months of 2022 working at Kinnegar Brewing, an Irish craft brewery in Letterkenny, County Donegal. For homebrewers who want to learn what it’s actually like to work in a brewery, an internship like this provides invaluable lessons—including lessons that can be applied to being a…

By Dillon McLaughlin
The Reversible ALTI Desk Mat Includes Wireless Charging
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The Reversible ALTI Desk Mat Includes Wireless Charging

We'll always be big fans of desk mats. While our previous favorites were standard cutting mats, those were quickly replaced once we found out about the ALTI Wireless Charging Desk Mat. The ALTI features a premium vegan leather surface on one side and plush felt on the other, with a…

By Ben Dahl
Dango Products Pen Tray
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Dango Products Pen Tray

Depending on how serious you are about your personal writing instruments, you probably already have at least one or two pens from Dango Products. If you do, you’re familiar with their approach to manufacturing. Namely, they make attractive, durable pens and desk accessories out of machined aluminum. This pen tray…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Pen Type-C Is as Thick as a Refill and Doubles as Bookmark

We've spent a lot of the time over the past handful of years collecting what we feel are the best pens out there for notes, to-dos and daily record keeping. This all started with the Best Kickstarter Pens, and no list of those kind of pens would be complete without…

By Ben Dahl
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Learn Something New and Save Big With an Exclusive Discount at Skillwise

Year after year, we set the same New Year's resolutions. Write things down. Buy things made to last. Be healthy. Disconnect. We're pretty good at all of those things, but the one New Year's resolution we always seem to have trouble prioritizing is resolution to learn a new trade or…

By Ben Dahl
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Constealla DESKAPE Desk Organizers

Desk organizers are typically about as attractive as spice racks from the Home Shopping Network. Not anymore since the new DESKAPE set of aluminum organizers from Constealla will make you look more like a German architect than a spreadsheet slave with zero imagination. The range of organizers includes the likes…

By Amos Kwon
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The Hoverpen Will Change the Way You Take Notes

We want more from our pen than committing ideas to paper. We need beautiful design, modern technology, unparalleled construction and that special something to create a pen we aspire to use every day. The Hoverpen delivers. This titanium pen floats over a zinc alloy pedestal with a magnetic field that…

By Ben Dahl
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Stealtho Modular Desk Organizer

We're very particular when it comes to our desktop accessories. We want pieces that are stylish, functional and elevate our work space when it comes to productivity and process. And that's exactly why this new modular, transforming desk organizer from Stealtho is perfectly suited for our needs. The concept is…

By Ben Dahl
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