we underestimate how much we forget of our own ideas. we are just terrible. it is an idea is this kind of homage this fleeting sense of something interesting and it kind of this appears so one of the things i found people doing and i try to do it as well as to write everything down but to keep everything together don t overorganize your notes and put them off into folders and things like that to allow the collisions to happen between your ideas but it s to go back the embrey read all those notes and go back and look at the notes from six years ago, and revisit that kind of self past and all of the ideas that he or she had. that is what place was like for the great land of the enlightenment. they would stitch together passages from the books they read it they would write their own and notes and they would go back every read this book which was itself a kind of remix kind of sample clothing and other intellectual kind of presence their intellectual kind of self in the reading e