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On notetaking and open-ended conversations

Conversational Canyons On notetaking and open-ended conversations Jan 04, 2023 163 5 9 Share Cosmic cities, Arthur Wesley Dow, 1913 Conversations are streams: they pass by without leaving much behind. But if you add a notebook—if you write down short summaries of what you talk about so you can return to it in later conversations and expand—then you have a landscape for the conversation to flow through, and this changes it in interesting ways. When I started writing summaries, I thought it would be a small change. I already kept a detailed journal—I could just as well keep one for conversations

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