This collection is such a powerful reminder that writing is really thinking in slow motion. I especially love the idea that “evaluated experience” and daily review turn ordinary days into wisdom. It makes me want to treat my journal less like a diary of events and more like a lifelong conversation with my future self.
Thanks to Bobby for putting this together. If the selection landed for you, his newsletter Leader & Learner is linked at the end of the post and worth subscribing to.
A question I have to ask, running a highlighting company: do you actually journal, or do you mostly collect other people's words and call it reflection? I have spent years doing the second and telling myself it was the first.
I'll go first on the quote that got me. Tiago Forte's line about notetaking being time travel, sending packets of knowledge to your future self. That is the entire reason we built a daily review into Glasp. Highlights you never revisit are letters you never mailed.
Ohh, great question! I do both journaling and collecting others' ideas ("commonplacing"). I do a TON of the latter and some of the former. I want to get better with journaling my own thoughts more frequently.
To me, the value of personal journaling relates to the Joyce Carol Oates quote on this list. I've often found it powerful to review old journal notes, even ones that didn't seem important at the time. Those notes have shown me what I was struggling with at the time—and hence, how I've grown over time. I love seeing that!
This collection is such a powerful reminder that writing is really thinking in slow motion. I especially love the idea that “evaluated experience” and daily review turn ordinary days into wisdom. It makes me want to treat my journal less like a diary of events and more like a lifelong conversation with my future self.
Ohhh, I like that: "a lifelong conversation with my future self." That's an awesome way to think about it!
Thanks to Bobby for putting this together. If the selection landed for you, his newsletter Leader & Learner is linked at the end of the post and worth subscribing to.
A question I have to ask, running a highlighting company: do you actually journal, or do you mostly collect other people's words and call it reflection? I have spent years doing the second and telling myself it was the first.
I'll go first on the quote that got me. Tiago Forte's line about notetaking being time travel, sending packets of knowledge to your future self. That is the entire reason we built a daily review into Glasp. Highlights you never revisit are letters you never mailed.
Which one made you want to open a notebook?
No Substack account? Same conversation on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/glasp/
Ohh, great question! I do both journaling and collecting others' ideas ("commonplacing"). I do a TON of the latter and some of the former. I want to get better with journaling my own thoughts more frequently.
To me, the value of personal journaling relates to the Joyce Carol Oates quote on this list. I've often found it powerful to review old journal notes, even ones that didn't seem important at the time. Those notes have shown me what I was struggling with at the time—and hence, how I've grown over time. I love seeing that!
Pain + Reflection = Progress🙌
I'm glad you enjoyed that one! :-)