What's with the bees?

"We also, I say, ought to copy these bees, and sift whatever we have gathered from a varied course of reading"

I’m so excited to get this newsletter started! Here’s a short, mid-week explainer on why I chose a bee icon — accompanied by some cool medieval manuscripts.

Beekeeping print from the 14th-century handbook, Tacuinum Sanitatis

Since antiquity, the honeybee has been a metaphor for collecting quotations and other information.

Writing on methods for gathering i…