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    Tracking Down Typewriters: Those Trusty Tools of Days Gone By
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    1. chrisaldrich 24 Apr 2024
      David McCullough, the noted histo-rian and Pulitzer Prize winner, haswritten everything he’s ever publishedsince 1965 on his sixty-nine-year-oldRoyal KMM standard desktop.
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  3. Feb 2024
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    David McCullough
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    1. chrisaldrich 02 Feb 2024
      Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

      McCullough, David. “David McCullough Interview with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole.” Humanities 23, no. 4 (August 2002). https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/david-mccullough-biography.

      Compare with: https://hypothes.is/a/yEFMHoCkEeyl34fItJe__w (Luhmann on thinking/writing in Sonke Ahrens)

      writing is thinking tools for thought affordances why writing is hard quotes David McCullough
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    California Typewriter (2016) ⭐ 7.3 | Documentary
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    1. chrisaldrich 01 Aug 2023

      Historian and author David McCullough prefers a manual typewriter over computers with keyboards specifically because it forces him to slow down and take his time.

      Ref: @Nichol2016 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5966990/

      David McCullough slowing down analog vs. digital writing process typewriters
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