Venture deep enough into any rabbit hole – coffee, wine, watches, audio, pens, 3D printing – and you find yourself sweating the small stuff (“…but with this setup I get 22.8% TDS instead of 21%…”), exchanging hard currency for knowledge currency (“I need to compare the Moondrop Blessing 3 to the Campfire Andromeda Emerald Sea, …
In the last gasps of the final showdown between fountain pens and ballpoints, Pilot introduced the Pilot Justus. Today, the Justus model commands eyebrow-raising prices on eBay. When it was launched, it tanked. It’s not hard to see why. When mobile phones became as accessible as pagers, pager manufacturers introduced transparent pagers, pagers with flashing …