How a Square of Paper Became a Place to Think
It started as a glue that didn’t work. A weak adhesive 3M couldn’t find a use for, until a choir singer needed his bookmark to stay put. This story traces how a failed experiment became the yellow square on your fridge, why the name Post-it stuck even when the note isn’t one, and what a tiny piece of paper teaches us about how culture takes in ideas.
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