Adding this because of the associated blog post:

Thanks to everyone who wrote to say they enjoyed the blogs. I had thought social media killed blogging, but a few of you seem to be here in the afterlife. Isn't it strange how a blog without comments is so much more intimate than social media? I think the key is that blogs are like letters, and letters are the most intimate human experience that doesn't involve touching someone's butt. Come to think of it, they may be more intimate now than in their heyday because only a few of you will even bother to read.

• against productivity gurus
• maintains unorganized notes
• believes "everything that isn’t writing, revising, or editing is a waste of time"
  • this extends to notetaking
• "People often look at my large collection of books, or see the articles I tweet about, and ask, how do you remember everything you read? And the answer is, I don’t. Remembering is for chumps."

List of arguments:

• notetaking makes you go from remembering only what stays organically to what seems like it might be interesting
• "Getting lost in your knowledge management system is a fantastic way to avoid creating things"
  • same thing applied to books/courses/videos on notetaking systems (the only part that I agree with)
• the majority of interesting writing is off-the-cuff
• distraction by presentation of factual insight (?)
• this stuff doesn't apply to summarizing huge swaths of literature or if the person has "truly bad, unfixable memories"
• author is "waiting for any evidence" that the best thinkers rely on notetaking systems, and thinks those that are taught it "produce unexciting work" (emphasis mine)
• isn't anti-notetaking, but is anti-systems
• avoid useless adoption of the aesthetic