Musings on tools for thought

Posted by 22111
Jun 12, 2022 at 11:17 AM

Sometimes, people look up to the wrong persons - not because their idols are worthy of it, but because they, the admirers, the fanboys, want to be part of a “followers’ community, and whatever the “content” whenever the “message” is appealing -, and sometimes, people use unqualified instruments for taking notes - fountain pens slowing your notetaking down, and, notwithstanding what they might naïvely “think” of that allegedly being a “good thing” - about “time to think it over” and it all -, it’s a bad one, since it’s all about the necessary speed to scribble down ALL aspects of “your late husband” while the “yoghurt” lasts (cf. https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/9786/0/maps-eg-etc )...

for editing then, you might even use paper printouts indeed, but possibly scribbling into them with a pencil (not Ikea’s free but too short ones, of course); and there’s the problem of well- (even author-) readable handwriting being quite rare among thinkers (whilst 15-year-old school girls nowadays not writing but the strict, legally-enforced minimum anymore to begin with - to cite the perfect example of perfect handwriting readability) - so even if you use a “dictation” system instead (see my clarification over there, today), which, from speed considerations would then allow you to “write it down” by fountain pen, readability concerns should probably make you decide otherwise.

And, of course, I meant it was a good thing the discussion was deflected from “thinking” around a “thinker” whose “thinking” is highly debatable - to put it as courteous as it gets -, by ANY other subject, I just dared name that one: my gosh!