I start the morning with pen and paper

I’m back to starting my mornings on pen and paper. Minimum 15 minutes, with the option to extend.

I did this for a while in the spring, then lost the habit. I need it back. It is so good to have it back.

Why? Digital environments have always been hostile to deep thought—they’re so distracting, even if you lock them down a bunch. My centaur workflow makes this far worse again. The nuclear option is justified.

The setup:

Pen and paper.
Café.
Laptop and phone in bag.
Thinking happens on paper.
Task capture also happens on paper.
Take a photo.
A /paper-to-tokens skill reads the photo, saves notes to the relevant projects, and routes tasks to my inbox.

I often voice-note-to-think, while walking. It’s good stuff, but sometimes you need to see your chain of thought to generate a great next token.

Footnotes

I time-tracked the design => build => deploy process for this one: 10 mins. My input: one prompt to Fable, one feedback round. ↩

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I’m learning to work with AI, to help make AGI go well. This is my study journal.

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I’m back to starting my mornings on pen and paper. Minimum 15 minutes, with the option to extend.

I did this for a while in the spring, then lost the habit. I need it back. It is so good to have it back.

The setup:

Pen and paper.
Café.
Laptop and phone in bag.
Thinking happens on paper.
Task capture also happens on paper.
Take a photo.
A /paper-to-tokens skill reads the photo, saves notes to the relevant projects, and routes tasks to my inbox.

I often voice-note-to-think, while walking. It’s good stuff, but sometimes you need to see your chain of thought to generate a great next token.

Footnotes

I time-tracked the design => build => deploy process for this one: 10 mins. My input: one prompt to Fable, one feedback round. ↩