[awinter-py]

notes + diarying as the form of self-investment is popping up everywhere

there are historical examples (leslie groves composed his autobiography of the manhattan project from his daybook)

for doing business (CRM users capture the customer's needs and situation, given that the next conversation might be in 6 months)

and for thinking (capture where you are, take a break, read and think about it the next day)

[bmj]

St. Igantius of Loyola (founder of the Catholic Jesuit order), outlined a process of discernment that is very similar to the decision journal method nearly 500 years ago in his Spiritual Exercises[0]. Of course, there is a distinct focus on the discernment of spirits, but the prompts in the decision journal are generally the same.

[0] https://www.marquette.edu/faith/ignatian-principles-for-maki...

[saviorand]

Hmm, maybe we can bring that discernment of spirits part back to the template? JK

[simonebrunozzi]

> leslie groves composed his autobiography of the manhattan project from his daybook

I had no idea, and this is a great example of why I read Hacker News every day.

[yodon]

Cliff Stoll did the same when while writing the Cuckoo's Egg.

[saviorand]

I guess it's just a natural way of doing it. You need to write every day, then assemble -> why not write in your dailies

[awinter-py]

good rec