Today, I spent most of my morning at the Department of Public Safety renewing my driver's license. There was a space of about 15 minutes between receiving my number and being "called" (although no one ever did) which was dead time. Signs were posted everywhere warning you not to use your cell phone and indeed a couple of people were asked to take their calls outside when they did. Had it not been for my trusty Moleskine notebook, I would have been bored out of my skull.
I pulled it out and started jotting down things in my head: tasks for work, personal to-do's, honey-do's, future blog topics, reading plans, situational observations, and on and on. It may have been five full minutes when it dawned on me that I was having a very pleasurable experience just letting the pen flow across the page, emptying my mind and letting each topic blossom and stick in a way that ethereal thinking cannot maintain.
I've often said that in this high tech world, some of the coolest techniques are the really low tech ones and taking handwritten notes is a prime example.
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