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While working at the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld became infamous for his excessive memos called Snowflakes (in reference to a "blizzard" effect). Many of which were presented in The Unknown Known as self contradicting or to be eponymously nonsensical. |
Maybe Errol Morris is right, maybe anything more than brief self expression inevitably reveals something regrettable. And maybe all these notebooks, notes, records of meeting, data, ideas, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly to-do lists...maybe it's self indulgent and nothing but a record of how crazy I am.
So I've been going through the collection of notebooks:
I don't know if this is a Pro or a Con: clearly these records are less useful after getting wet, but some entries remind me of when I do good doodling. Now that doodling has been shown to help focus one's attention and improve memory, I want to recognize the positive impact some of the really good looking notes may play in organizing thoughts and helping me move forward on work loads.
Con: Risk of incrimination
There's always the thoughts you would like to have left to impermanence...
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Dear 1997 Kim, you end up living in Chicago for 13 years so far... |
Con: Even after organizing thoughts in a journal, you still have to do something. Something digital probably like a shared google doc or an email...why not just skip the notebook step and go right to the task...
Any thoughts out there?
I'm torn