Use effortless methods to focus on intellectual production
from /villagepump/2022/03/07
- [Intellectual production is not stoicism.
- When you want to use all your brain energy for intellectual production
- If there's extra work to be done, that's where the energy is taken up and you're not at your best.
- [When you're pushing the limits of your own intellect, the least burdensome method is chosen.](/en/When%20you're%20pushing%20the%20limits%20of%20your%20own%20intellect%2C%20the%20least%20burdensome%20method%20is%20chosen.)
- For example, I usually write equations in TeX, but when it comes to really difficult topics, I don't have the brain resources to devote to TeX, so I write by hand.
- [/nishio/Information-Geometric Optimization](https://scrapbox.io/nishio/Information-Geometric Optimization).
- Another common direction is the "it's not good to devote resources to creating beautiful documents" kind of talk.
- Yeah, Scrapbox seems like a lot of work for someone who's not good at keyboarding.
- In fact, I've heard some people say, "What you're missing is not a good note-taking tool, but an improvement in your typing speed." I'm sure there are people who are like that.
- I started to write [/kozaneba-forum-jp/line-drawing-function](https://scrapbox.io/kozaneba-forum-jp/line-drawing-function) in a "is-tasu" style, but halfway through I was forced to write in a "da-da-are" style in fragments.
- Well, I'll clean it up.
- When someone teaches "intellectual production techniques" with a lot of "you have to" rules attached to them, it makes me think, "Hasn't this person ever really done any intellectual production themselves? I get the feeling that "this person has never done any real intellectual production himself.
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