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I often sketch out code, short stories, or (to me) fleetingly puzzling mathematics with a notepad and pen. Try it. It's the most versatile note-taking system ev
by J_McQuade 16y ago
I often sketch out code, short stories, or (to me) fleetingly puzzling mathematics with a notepad and pen. Try it. It's the most versatile note-taking system ever devised.
Also, it has the plus-side of being 'interesting'. People are attracted to scribbles they understand them - but crack open your laptop in a pub or cafe and people will assume that you're a rabidly, uninterruptibly busy, professional. And hell, maybe you are, but whose day isn't brightened by someone asking them what they're so engrossed in?
- bitwize 16y agoDepoends on what's on the laptop screen. Usually it's someone's 3Q projection analysis spreadsheet or an academic paper about third-wave-feminist semiotics in Madonna music videos (I live near Harvard). If it's Emacs (and it sometimes is; I also live near MIT), I'd be more inclined to say "Hey, whatcha workin' on?"
- johnfn 16y agoWriting math is definitely the killer app for me. For some reason I just can't write math on the computer without scribbling it out on paper first. Everything else works, more or less. Maybe it's because I've done so much math on paper already.