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Creative Spark - on getting organized

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Adam Ming
Feb 04, 2026
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If you’re ever going to have the tools you need when you want them, you’re going to have to give them homes.

I just refilled the ink of my black brush pen recently and I can’t find the thing. Instead for some reason I find this green Tombow pen on my table. So I use the green pen. As I search for my black one.

I did search for the black pen, and in my search I found this basket, a graveyard of pens, and I thought about how they found them selves there…

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