In Defense of Flow

While my California trip was lovely (thank you for asking 🌴), I did adopt an important task on my journey.

For most of the f-words we’ve covered so far, I’ve leaned heavily on my commonplace book — a collection of hundreds (and soon thousands) of notecards with ideas, quotes, and scribbles from all sorts of things I’ve stumbled across. Books, movies, conversations — you name it, there’s probably a notecard birthed from it.

The point is that it extends your brain. It makes it easier to connect far-...