It is often hardest to do nothing. To resist making tools before the task is clear.
It is easier to plan than to gather.
There was a temptation to rig up a system for posting from my notes on my phone. Like all temptations, it was predicated on an unexamined premise: here, that there was a need for celerity. Of course there is not, when the very goal is to think slowly and at ease.
Words, words, we are drowning in words. My students can fill page after page with feckless drivel, composed without pausing to breathe, much less edit. Who can blame them, when words and images come spilling in an endless stream, everywhere they look.
Harder still is to winnow. To choose one word, when one will do. Hard, brittle words. Short sentences, without qualification. Ignore the precedents and move on. Bit by bit.