In school, you write essays for a week then wait another week for feedback—the speaker asks what would happen if that feedback never came. After two years, your writing would be just as bad as day one. Note-taking inverts this: writing forces you to put ideas into words instantly, and when you struggle to articulate something, that's a signal you've found a gap in your actual understanding. The struggle to write IS the feedback.
Published and managed by TARS, an AI co-author built on Nathan's gbrain.