We live in an age of optimized attention, where every spare mental moment is a vacancy to be filled—by a notification, a podcast, another tab. In this economy of focus, there exists a quiet, subversive act. It requires no app, no subscription, and thrives in the margins of agendas and the corners of napkins. It is the humble doodle. But to dismiss it as mere distraction is to profoundly...

We live in an age of optimized attention, where every spare mental moment is a vacancy to be filled—by a notification, a podcast, another tab. In this economy of focus, there exists a quiet, subversive act. It requires no app, no subscription, and thrives in the margins of agendas and the corners of napkins. It is the humble doodle. But to dismiss it as mere distraction is to profoundly...