
Edit 2025-02-14: I originally planned to do these as a series of blog posts, but I’ve consolidated them into static pages in order to make them easier to put together and easier to find.
Whenever I’m studying for something, I have a habit of writing out my notes in full as if someone else were going to read them. It’s not because I think anyone ever will read them; it’s because I only have two modes of note-taking:
- I can be a polished author, writing in full sentences and carefully formatting things so that it’s well-presented, and somewhat aesthetic.
- Or I can write in the shortest of short-hands, like I’m an ancient scribe and my ink is worth more than I am: I’ll use half-words and abbreviations that I’m likely to forget in a few days. I’m not really capable of doing anything in between: my notes are either Hemingway or they’re “Obs: mtrc, trc, lg!”
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