You make it sound like he told us it was ok to be unreadable and make spelling mistakes... No, we needed to be readable, always. And attentive to presentation, on occasion, but only when it mattered.

I'm very grateful now for the ability to take notes quickly in meetings where things go really fast and I don't have a chance to ask people to repeat what they said. But of course if I'm sending those notes out later, I'll take the time to format them properly.