Most of us have a pencil holder we never actually chose. It’s the ceramic mug you retired from coffee duty, or the branded giveaway from a conference two years ago, or the squat plastic cup that came bundled with a stapler. It works. It holds pens. But you have never once looked at it and thought, “I genuinely love that thing.”

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