Yes exactly this. Social signals matter. To go a bit more meta, the question is, who are you? Who do you want to be? Who do you want people to perceive you

Yes exactly this. Social signals matter. To go a bit more meta, the question is, who are you? Who do you want to be? Who do you want people to perceive you as? Using a fountain pen hits all the highlights to these questions. Besides, it's just plain old COOL to be using a writing technology that is over 200 years old. The quality pens feel amazing, and encourage additional note taking for me. Another advantage to paper notes: They arent searchable. Yup you heard me, NOT SEARCHABLE. Oh wait, you say, I want to search my notes... so I put everything in email. Then I get fired. And my boss owns my private notes. Oops.