Something heretical: the smartest people I know don’t take very good notes.
I do not know why this is.
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I have noticed this but I think it's cherry-picking. I think seeing a very smart person not taking notes is memorable. I also observe it more in engineer types. And their intelligence is often more "available". Interesting topic
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I've seen a few not taking *any* notes, but more commonly I see them creating transient documents — sort of like a staging area for their thinking. Then they throw it away.
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would be cool to have a window into each person's process. i occasionally ask. and then i'm left feeling really dumb (as a compulsive note taker myself)
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Reminds me of this tweet tho not related
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Software interfaces undervalue peripheral vision! (a thread)
My physical space is full of subtle cues. Books I read or bought most recently are lying out. Papers are lying in stacks on my desk, roughly arranged by their relationships.
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