This says "Think deeply upfront: Carefully design your core 'interview questions' to reflect what truly matters to you."

Interestingly, recently I started journaling using a method that, in contrast to this, one might call, "Aristotlean journaling", simply because thinking deeply up front caused me to forget important thoughts, and more infuriatingly, elegant phrasing.

It starts with the triggering event or observation, and goes on in a style that includes a lot of "this seems like", "let us now consider", "so then the question remains..."

Here's an (unedited, and admittedly convoluted) example from yesterday. Please ignore the subject matter and only pay attention to style and structure.

Let us say that we have now created a society where paid disemination of political speech, whether through direct payment of fees, or through indirect payment in the form of sponsorship, is not legally permitted. what of commissioned works? No one can prevent one person from paying another person to produce a work of art, literature or media to their specification. In fact, this is one of the primary sources of income for artists in particular. If the work is for private consumption and is not publicly disseminated, then it does not affect balanced political speech at large. However, if the creator is free to disseminate their work to the public (once again, by some means of advertising that is not paid political speech), then the person who commissioned the work would have, through financial means, influenced the prevalence of certain types of political speech over others by increasing the supply (and perhaps also reducing the price) of work that align with their political views. This is a hard problem to solve.

I use the Kobo Elipsa e-ink tablet, which comes with a stylus and a notebook that can convert handwriting to text on-device.