The World Is Your Lab: You Need a Notebook to Converse with Yourself
The World Is Your Lab: You Need a Notebook to Converse with Yourself
To derive benefit from documentation when you have only a hunch, you must dispense with the notion that documentation is just record keeping. Capture your thoughts without regard for being wrong; our brains have no problem drawing the seemingly preposterous connections that fuel innovating. The benefits of documentation will be most easily understood by future-you—the real expert at what you are doing and fully equipped with hindsight. So, get ideas out of your brain and documented before the memory of an idea you once had becomes more important than the idea ever was. Later, when your brain finds it again, it will become a near miss. That and everything it helps your brain remember can be a part.
Keywords: Documentation, Future-you, Future, Hindsight
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