The essay as it originally appeared in print.In 2015 I was invited to write the following essay for Offscreen Magazine, which appeared in Issue 11. It set in motion the ideas that led me to create my techno-nostalgist luxury keyboard brand Norbauer & Co.. --- I've always liked| Ryan Norbauer
I had the most curious sensation when I was working the other night: I was kind of happy. You know, not just in the I find this work satisfying kind of way, but in the and I don’t also want to walk out a window kind of way. This| Ryan Norbauer
Back in 2007, I used to write a guest column for 43folders—a now mostly forgotten website about productivity that was nevertheless widely read in those days of a much smaller and nerdier Internet. I reproduce here my favorite essay from that series, a sort of workaholic's New Year's reflection.| Ryan Norbauer
Every year since I was about 12 years old, I've spent a few hours each Christmas Eve listening to Patrick Stewart’s one-man-show version of A Christmas Carol. The Dickens story has become so infused with Western Christmas culture in its many retellings, variations, and incarnations (from It's a Wonderful| Ryan Norbauer
Stabilizers have long been the great unsolved problem in the world of keyboards. Their function is straightforward; they prevent longer keys (such as the spacebar) from seesawing upward at one end when the opposite end is pressed down. Current solutions serve that purpose well enough, but the issue is: they| Ryan Norbauer