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   tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 12:49:29 JST tom jennings

   • Kit Rhett Aultman

   @roadriverrail

   I strongly recommend writing and sketching and drawing ideas, ideation and design stuff, not necessarily long form writing.

   There is an underappreciated synergy between hand, eye, and internal dialog. As you verbalize or whatever your idea, your hand draws; your eyes see what you write. There's multiple feedback loops.

   I use 10 x 10 grid pads, Alvin mechanical pencils, Mars erasers.

   Especially first or early draft stuff. Once roughed out, then I often move to machine.

   Text, i type (tea, vim, libre office) but for ideas, paper. There's no distraction of mice, modes, files, typos etc.

   Hand and pen to paper is magic and invisible, it's built in and long practiced.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 12:49:26 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • SpaceLifeForm

     @SpaceLifeForm @tomjennings I guess the thing is that it feels like I must be missing a step or something, because I could just keep using a basic 4"x6" yellow notepad, given that the only purpose is to write something down and then never again look at it.

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     SpaceLifeForm (spacelifeform@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 12:49:27 JST SpaceLifeForm

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @tomjennings @roadriverrail

     If you make notes, you are much more likely to recall them later. Even if your handwriting is messy.

     Definite feedback loop.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 00:55:39 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • SpaceLifeForm

     @SpaceLifeForm @tomjennings I'm aware of that and have been for many years. My purpose is musing on what I might find to be an improvement on "scribble it on anything at hand because it doesn't matter and I won't look at it 2 weeks later"

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     SpaceLifeForm (spacelifeform@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 00:55:40 JST SpaceLifeForm

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail @tomjennings

     It is the act of writing itself that helps commit the thoughts to memory.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 15:14:29 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • SpaceLifeForm

     @tomjennings @SpaceLifeForm I appreciate the effort you're putting in here, but I don't think we're actually having a conversation about the same thing.

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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 15:14:30 JST tom jennings

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman
     • SpaceLifeForm

     @roadriverrail

     Can't really answer, except maybe it means taking your own efforts more seriously. I don't mean such stuff needs to become precious, if it's not useful, pitch it. But 'serious' in that your work is important to you; you can scratch it out and look at it tomorrow, and not *at the time* worry about that.

     @SpaceLifeForm