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Keeping handwritten diaries and exchanging snail mail is a lost and found hobby for internet generations.
An unescapable reality for pre-internet generations, an optional hobby for internet generations: finding the joy in writing letters by hand, the rituals of writing and sending letters, and waiting for the answers via the postal service that’s “slow like a snail”.
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- Writing letters and waiting for the answer via mail was a way for pre-internet generations to learn to wait. 3b1a-gen-y-and-z-did-not-learn-to-wait
- Scott Scheper is aiming to build a cult around paper-based notetaking.
- J.W. Westlake in his 19th century manual of correspondence wrote beautifully about the joys of writing letters.
- I saw some on-point memes about millennials skipping midlife crises and jumping head-on into granny hobbies.