Just like most notes we take are a waste of time, most of the reading we can do in a lifetime is a waste of our time. They’re low quality and shouldn’t have been given more than a skim on their way to their proper place deep in the recesses of our past never to be thought of again.Įven entirely ignoring clickbait headlines, most of the decent writing in the world isn’t going to contribute in a meaningful way to the things that interest you. ![]() Most of the notes taken about books and other writing are on sources that don’t deserve a single word written about them. It’s easy to fall into the trap that more notes are note-taking done right. We take them because we’re new to note-taking, or have a newfound drive to take notes. We take them because it makes the knowledge graph look sexier, not because they have any utility to us. The truth is that most of the notes we take are useless and will remain useless. I’ve fallen into this trap with books and articles and…so many things I now regret spending my time on. ![]() It’s convinced us that we need to take lots of notes on far too many things that come across our desks or screens when the truth is 95% of it is all that’s worth reading and maybe 5% of that stuff that’s worth reading is worth taking notes on. The cult of note-taking is failing most of us.
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