> Also, I find myself having to take notes to come back to later. I rely on notes too. I'm not sure it's entirely due to my memory getting worse with age. It's

> Also, I find myself having to take notes to come back to later. I rely on notes too. I'm not sure it's entirely due to my memory getting worse with age. It's also that as you progress to more senior or leadership roles over the course of your career, the rate at which you become interrupted by questions or meetings increases, and the number of different issues you need to juggle also increases. I use my notes as a non-volatile memory to save my current mental state so I can resume after these interrupts. If I'm coding uninterrupted and in a state of "flow", I can still remember details of my code from years ago. Cartoon about interrupting a programmer: https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-a-programmer https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt...