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In essence, journalling is similar to a psychotherapy session. The clarity of mind you get after a journalling session comes from structuring things in your head, not in your TfT tool. Yet, as one would expect, people project that feeling onto a tool — which leads to more time invested. Ultimately after the N-th session, when you try to use the tool to get more of that feeling — you get the opposite, burnout, and then people switch to a new TfT app for the same cycle.

In Essence, Journalling Is Similar to a Psychotherapy Session.

ycombinator.com

An idea kept private is as good as one you never had.

How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking (For Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers) – Sönke Ahrens

Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément

In 1886, after months of planning and preparation, all of the broad gauge southern track was changed to standard gauge in just thirty-six hours: tens of thousands of workers pulled up one rail of the track, moved it a few inches closer to the other, and spiked it into its new position. Railcars got new undercarriages, and the two separate smaller networks became a single, fully interconnected, national network.

How Infrastructure Works

Deb Chachra

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