Wendell Berry on the benefits of writing without a computer

the character of one’s writing, especially in early drafts, includes the character of the physical artifact, which, when produced with an industrial machine like a computer, is otherwise homogenized and destroyed.

Agree. There is something beautiful and inimitable about your own handwriting.

In our rush to digitize the world, we often underestimate the value of the patina, subtle imperfections, and otherwise visible history of the physical objects we choose to digitize. And in the process of digitization, we both erase that history and then fail to recreate it.

we need not always minimize ourselves to accommodate our devices