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Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo... by quest88 on Friday July 12, 2024 @11:04PM (#40951442)
> Perhaps the greatest barrier to using it is akin to envy. We see others who apparently do this without written materials, in their head. I think we see this as evidence of intellectual superiority and harbor the doubt that using an aid like a journal means we are somehow lacking in skill or ability.

To add to your "this is wrong": These others may have themselves solved the problems we are now trying to solve, likely even using a journal. They no longer need a journal since they know how to navigate it, and it appears as superior to us.

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Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo... by ahartmetz on Saturday July 13, 2024 @05:32AM (#40952879)
I mitigate this "problem" somewhat by taking pride in specialized yet (hopefully) readable notations and sometimes even creative tool usage. Like using a project planning tool with a Gantt chart feature to speed up a boot process with many dependencies.

Of course, sometimes an existing tool or notation used for its original purpose is what you need. Maybe manually remove the stuff that doesn't matter.

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Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo... by bee_rider on Saturday July 13, 2024 @11:04AM (#40954513)
This was the biggest revelation in grad school for me, I think.

The professors were in fact not gods of problem solving, they just had the answers. Not just of the problems they brought along (obviously). But also of the handful of problems we’d tend to invent. Of course, if you really catch them flat-footed, they can provide circumspect and sagely advice, and then quickly check Wikipedia to see if anyone has solved your problem.

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Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo... by veunes on Saturday July 13, 2024 @03:32PM (#40956283)
The notion that using a journal is a common misconception
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