Writing as a form of thinking - The author makes the point that in this day and age of AIs that can create text on demand, that it's important to remember that the act of writing is itself a tool for thoroughly digesting and exploring an idea, a thought. He describes his writing habbits, particularly note taking. I tend to agree with him. I too take a lot of notes, especially when listening to podcasts. It's suprisingly difficult to get right. There's a big variety, sometimes it's straight forward and you take just the right amount, with a nice structure. More often you either end up taking way too many, especially when the information density is very high, or when the conversation you are listening to jumps around a lot and doesn't have a very clear structure, every bullet point ends up being top level, and there's isn't enough structure. Other times it's best just to put the pen down and listen without breaking the flow. I bet in the future AIs will monitor our thoughts as we consume media, and be able to give us a summary report afterwards with relevant links we made along the way to items in our life, and references to stuff we wanted more clarification on. Can you imagine how unbelievably cool that would be? But also kind of scary. lopespm.github.io #