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by rzr999 1610 days ago
There is a saying in japanese that ideas don't come from kami but from kami. Kami in the first meaning means god. In the second it means paper.

So ideas don't come from god but from paper.

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This is it, i think. Note taking can somehow lately sound like a weird tech fetish but it's just about how to write. For millenia we only had one way to write, and we were pretty obsessed. Now we've got more options, and we're exploring them, but we're no more obsessed with information capture now than, say, the Roman emperor Constantine was.