A funny, loose conversation about phones, attention, rain, and one misidentified multi-pen.
Margin tracks Justin Twyford and Stu Lennon as they circle the odd comedy of trying to live with both analog habits and phone-shaped reflexes.
Productivity talk with pens, tech, and weather.
The gist
Stationery Adjacent follows Justin Twyford and Stu Lennon through the practical clutter of analog and digital productivity. Their episodes move from multi-pens, folders, pencils, and EDC gear to Apple books, social media habits, weather, politics, and midlife routines.
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About Stationery Adjacent
Stationery Adjacent is a two-person conversation about productivity as a real-life practice, full of tools, detours, weather, errands, and opinions. Justin Twyford and Stu Lennon frame the show around analog and digital productivity, but the episodes are rarely limited to notebooks and apps. The stationery is real. So are the digressions. A discussion about margin can turn into a confession about misidentifying a pen as a multi-pen. A check-in on folders can become a report on EDC carry, pry bars, and the search for a bag that does not look ridiculous. Apple keyboards, touchpads, folders, pencil comparisons, leather work, and pencil sharpening all get treated with the attention usually reserved for bigger life choices. Then the conversation widens. Cyprus rain, Canadian cold snaps, reservoirs, golf, gyms, Instagram reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Roblox, Apple’s anniversary, and Mac Power Users all pass through the same conversational current. The show has a dry comic rhythm, especially when one person presents a new setup and the other immediately hears the trouble coming. It also has room for unease. Episodes touch on war alerts in Cyprus, military movement in the Mediterranean, political distraction, online power, and the way technology shapes attention. Those heavier passages do not turn the show into a news program; they give the stationery talk more context. Productivity here is not a clean dashboard. It is a person trying to sort a wardrobe, write a post, choose a pen, avoid another unnecessary purchase, and keep some perspective while the world keeps making noise. The result is relaxed, literate, slightly cranky, and unusually human. It works best for listeners who enjoy the overlap between desk gear, Apple-adjacent tech culture, personal routines, and sharply observed everyday conversation. The analog-digital premise gives the show its structure, but the friendship gives it its shape.
Made for: For listeners who enjoy stationery, Apple-adjacent tech, analog systems, everyday productivity, and dry conversational humor. It especially suits people who like tool talk with enough real life around it to keep the gear in perspective.
What sets it apart: Stationery Adjacent stands apart by letting productivity talk stay personal, messy, and politically aware. Pens, bags, keyboards, and folders sit beside Cyprus alerts, Canadian weather, Roblox, online culture, and midlife routines without becoming a lecture.
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A podcast at the intersection of analog and digital productivity
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A pencil chat can reach geopolitics before you've finished sharpening.
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- your stationery enthusiasm served with arguments about phones, software, and modern digital life
- Justin and Stu's friendly ribbing alongside honest talk about health scares, war, and everyday routines
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Best episodes of Stationery Adjacent
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
An 1898 phrase frames war as a tempting domestic distraction.
"Trust" starts with take-cover alerts in Cyprus and follows the conversation into a broader question: why can war start to look useful when a leader is under pressure at home? Justin Twyford and Stu Lennon move from automated landline warnings and Mrs.
A stubborn Blackwing pencil leads a loose, dryly funny conversation through resilience, medical logistics, and marriage.
Statuary Adjacent follows a familiar productivity-podcast path: an everyday chat gradually turns into something stranger and more specific. Justin Twyford and Stu Lennon start with the weather, then linger over a Blackwing pencil that has barely needed sharpening and makes a…
A week spent stripping down a new phone turns digital continuity into something practical, personal, and lightly comic.
Digital continuity lands as a practical nuisance: what still feels useful after a new phone, a software update, or a shift in working habits. Justin Twyford and Stu Lennon move from Carnival rain in Cyprus to an iPhone 17 that took a week to pare back until it felt more like an…
A dry Okanagan Valley complaint gives this wandering episode its cleanest edge.
Stationary Adjacent is at its sharpest when it circles the awkward social contract of visiting a beautiful place. Justin Twyford's plea to stay home, or at least behave with some care in Canada's Okanagan Valley, works as a dry joke with a real point, especially once evening…
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Episodes
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Margin
Hidden gem["Justin Twyford and Stu Lennon open with Instagram reels, a 14-person camera-crew joke, and a dog that wants warm gravy made from kibble.
Apr 15, 2026·1h 20m·5 clips - 2
Ageing - What nobody tells you
Stationery Adjacent’s Justin Dwyford tests wax Bible highlighters on quarterly-review notes written with fountain-pen ink.
Apr 8, 2026·1h 23m·2 clips - 3
Tech Stocks.
Despite the “Tech Stocks” title, Justin Twife and Stu Lennon focus on planner refills, multi-pens, and analog desk setups.
Apr 1, 2026·1h 32m·2 clips - 4
Revisiting AI.
Stu Lennon tested ChatGPT on crypto and UK anti-money-laundering rules, then said its sourced answers seemed balanced.
Mar 25, 2026·56m·2 clips - 5
Rethinking Analogue Productivity
Justin Twyford and Stu Lennon use different planning systems while weighing an entirely analog approach.
Mar 18, 2026·1h 14m·2 clips - 6
Trust
Hidden gemStationery Adjacent’s “Trust” moves from Cyprus missile alerts and year-round daylight saving time in British Columbia to planner gear, wine, and Apple’s latest hardware.
Mar 11, 2026·1h 26m·5 clips - 7
Marriage (and how to make it work)
Stationery Adjacent hosts Justin Twyford and Stu Lennon open with gear and lifestyle chat, including Stu's 29-kilo (64-pound) weight loss, Justin's left-facing hanger test for decluttering, and Justin's sale of six boxes of Blackwing pencils to an Edmonton buyer.
Mar 4, 2026·1h 5m·2 clips - 8
Roblox. Who knew?
Justin Twyford and Stu Lennon open with weather in Cyprus, snow, and water shortages, then pivot to a Business Insider story about Meta’s AI patent to keep posting after death.
Feb 25, 2026·1h 25m·5 clips - 9
Digital Legacies
Hidden gemStationery Adjacent’s “Digital Legacies” turns on a concrete question: what happens to bank accounts, bills, and passwords when someone dies.
Feb 18, 2026·1h 7m·5 clips - 10
Productivity Stacks 2026
Justin Twifu and Stu Lennon open episode 220 of Stationery Adjacent with Stu's results from a 24-hour heart monitor in Cyprus, which found PVCs that he says affect about 60% of the population.
Feb 11, 2026·1h 28m·2 clips - 11
Where’s the Joy?
Feb 4, 2026·1h 28m - 12
The Opioid Crisis
Jan 28, 2026·1h 43m - 13
2026 Projections / Goals / Things to look forward to
Jan 21, 2026·1h 30m - 14
Enshittification of the Internet. How do we fix it?
Jan 14, 2026·1h 12m - 15
If we don’t go to the office, where do we meet people?
Dec 24, 2025·1h 18m - 16
Christmas chaos
Dec 17, 2025·1h 28m - 17
Supercomputers or phones, as some call them
Dec 10, 2025·1h 10m - 18
Whoop!
Dec 3, 2025·1h 13m - 19
Arete & Kakia
Nov 26, 2025·1h 18m - 20
Memento Mori
Nov 19, 2025·1h 4m - 21
A Solid Foundation
Nov 12, 2025·58m - 22
Rethinking the Material Stuff
Nov 5, 2025·1h 7m - 23
Nice bag, big boy
Oct 22, 2025·1h 5m - 24
Episode 206 - Duck, Duck Jeep
Oct 8, 2025·1h 19m - 25
Pole to Pole
Oct 1, 2025·1h 34m - 26
Apples, Desks and other First world Problems
Sep 24, 2025·1h 12m - 27
Productivity Writers
Sep 17, 2025·1h 17m - 28
Life before the Internet?
Sep 10, 2025·1h 35m - 29
What makes a good desk?
Sep 3, 2025·1h 12m - 30
Living with Tourists
Hidden gemStationery Adjacent's 'Living with Tourists' opens on episode 200 and quickly turns one bullet-journal comment into Stu Lennon's Twyford effect relapse.
Aug 27, 2025·1h 16m·5 clips - 31
The Belated Watches
Aug 20, 2025·1h 22m - 32
Fire!
Aug 6, 2025·1h 27m - 33
Identity
Jul 9, 2025·1h 4m - 34
Taking Notes on Books
Jul 2, 2025·1h 5m - 35
Social Media F&cked the World
Jun 25, 2025·1h 30m - 36
Boxstores versus Amazon versus Digital Books
Jun 18, 2025·1h 22m - 37
Gone but not Forgotten
Jun 11, 2025·1h 21m - 38
Listening to Books
Jun 4, 2025·1h 16m - 39
What was Stationery like as a kid?
May 28, 2025·1h 4m - 40
Work in the 80s, 90s compared to Now
May 21, 2025·1h 30m - 41
Life Before Mobile Phones
May 14, 2025·1h 32m - 42
A Perfect Daily System
May 7, 2025·1h 17m - 43
A Graveyard of Daily Systems
Apr 30, 2025·1h 8m - 44
Doing Hard Things
Apr 23, 2025·1h 22m - 45
European Operating Systems
Apr 16, 2025·1h 11m - 46
Return to Work
Justin and Stu discuss returning to work after a break, with small talk about Cyprus's dusty air and water shortage.
Apr 9, 2025·1h 15m - 47
Top3 part two, Pencils and Notebooks
The hosts discuss Greek independence and the history of Cyprus's division before moving to their top three picks for pencils and notebooks.
Apr 2, 2025·1h 23m - 48
Top 3 (part one): Fountain Pens and Ink
Mar 26, 2025·1h 19m - 49
The Role Of "The Arts"
Justin and Stu discuss International Book Day, their reading preferences, and Stu's concerns about geographical risk concentration due to world events.
Mar 12, 2025·1h 20m - 50
Data Privacy (Nihilism)
Mar 5, 2025·1h 20m