Back in the day, a shopkeeper in Japan might realize that they'd forgotten to pull out their abacus, that they'd been playing this musical instrument in their h

Back in the day, a shopkeeper in Japan might realize that they'd forgotten to pull out their abacus, that they'd been playing this musical instrument in their head to do calculations all morning. One guides a slide rule to roughly the right position based on intuition, then homes in on the answer. Calculators make people dumber. I'm torn between doing all my math on 40 lb laser paper with an assortment of Staedtler Pigment Liners, or on my iPad Pro using the architectural drawing program Concepts. Either way, I'm drawing. A digital interface is like a bird taking flight when one becomes algorithmically involved.