To hold a pen is to be at war. Voltaire (1694-1778) Let me first stress that I love working digitally. I think, and my hands write. Not as fast as I think, but faster than I could ever hope to write with a pen. However, there are moments when that deliberate slowing down effect of writing without a keyboard is very helpful. For me, it’s when I want to learn something I have to remember completely without having any access to notes, digital or otherwise. As written in another posting, when I learn something for exams, I usually make notes by hand, with pen on paper, then go over the notes with crayons, then create mind maps. That usually ensured pretty good grades at the university. (The only real exception here was an exam in which I was asked about a course I did not need to take — and did not take. The information wasn’t part of the literature I had read either, but the professor didn’t care, and neither did the legal department. So the prof had fun crucifying me and gave me the lowest passing grade. Unfortunately, it was in a subject I considered very interesting and [...]
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