E-ink isn't nostalgia but a line of defense for cognitive sovereignty against feeds and AI overreliance. I just open-sourced supernote-cli to pipe distraction-free thinking from Supernote straight into digital workflows. https://smus.com/notes/2026/supernote-cli-pen-paper-and-a-pipe/
supernote-cli: pen, paper, and a pipe
A recent NYT piece argued we need a mental fitness revolution to combat the cognitive decay caused by algorithmic feeds and generative AI. It's an efficient one-two punch. If you're not brainrotting on short form video content, you're outsourcing all of your thinking to an LLM. The result is a kind of cognitive strip-mining. What's left requires active defense. For me, one way of defending that capacity for deep work is with a pen on e-ink. Whether it's annotating a paper or starting a sketch from scratch, I'm intentionally making room for focused thought. My army of clawed Claudes and Codexes will just have to wait.