Why You Should Nickname Your Belongings

Ken Lane
6 min readMar 6, 2024

The surprising utility of lightly anthropomorphizing your stuff.

Harvey in my pocket.

Some would call it a 2020 Motorola Moto G Stylus smartphone.

But I call him “Harvey.”

I picked up Harvey for just over $200 when he was new. These days, he may need an afternoon “nap” on the…

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Ken Lane

I’m just a fella chronicling his attempts to live purposefully while finding contentment in the simple things.