A notebook is a promise to your future self
The trick, if there is one, is not to be more disciplined. It is to make the first twenty minutes cheap enough that you are willing to spend them badly. A page you are allowed to r
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What I learned re-reading my own margins
Attention is not a quantity you have, it is a shape you make. Two uninterrupted hours and four interrupted half-hours are not the same material, and no amount of arithmetic will tu
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Seven pens, one survivor
I keep a running list of the small decisions a project asks for, because the list is the only honest record of where the time actually went. It is never the big architectural choic
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Maps I keep but never use
There is a particular kind of quiet that arrives about twenty minutes into a piece of work, when the part of you that keeps checking whether the work is going well finally gives up
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Keeping a commonplace book
There is a particular kind of quiet that arrives about twenty minutes into a piece of work, when the part of you that keeps checking whether the work is going well finally gives up
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