• irmadlad@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    At 71, I have to document. I started a long time ago. I worked for a mec. contractor long ago, and the rule was: ‘If you didn’t write it down, it didn’t happen.’ That just carried over to everything I do.

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        3 days ago

        As in a blog or wiki? I do not because I am not authoritative. What I know came from reading, doing, screwing it up, ad nauseam. When something finally clicks for me, I write it down because 9 times out of 10, I will need that info later. But my writing would be so full of inaccuracies that it would be embarrassing and possibly lead someone astray.

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          17 hours ago

          It’s how cults start!

          I’ve started to take a l lot more notes at work I guess there will be a time where I take notes of what month it is!

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            14 hours ago

            I guess there will be a time where I take notes of what month it is!

            You may jest, but there are times when I can’t remember what I had for breakfast. They say that you never truly forget anything, but that our recall mechanism fades over time. For a myriad of reasons, including age, my recall mechanism is shit.