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Publishing my zettels is also a way of practicing kindness towards myself.
I struggle with maximalism, I always find a way of arguing why what I wrote is not real writing after all.
Giving my notes the validity of being published is a way to bend my tendency to self-criticise and to practice empathy, kindness and appreciation towards myself: even if they are not a book, not an essay, not even a blog post, my notes have worth.
Related
- I often think about “what I leave behind”, and if I imagine my goddaughter sifting through my notes sometime around the end of the century, I think they can provide some insight for her - hence, they are worth sharing.
- Private journals and letters are highly valued raw material for any researcher (not just historians or sociologists, but can be for researchers of natural sciences - as a guest explained on the Ologies Podcast with Alie Ward).
- Publishing my notes is a way of practicing the Feynman technique and learning by teaching (learning by sharing): 1-writing-and-publishing-my-zettelkasten-in-english-can-be-a-good-way-to-practice-the-feynman-technique