I’ve spent thousands of hours staring at screens. I’ve edited articles that received millions of “hits” and then vanished into the digital ether forty-eight hours later. In the newsroom, we call this “fish-wrap”—today’s headline is tomorrow’s trash. But at least with physical newspapers, you could find a yellowed copy in an attic fifty years later. Digital content doesn’t age; it just expires. If you want your thoughts, your legacy, or your stories to actually last, you need to get them off the glass and onto the page. 1. The “Tactile” Memory There is a specific neurobiology to physical objects. When you write a letter by hand, or print a photograph,…