• irmadlad@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      At 71, I have to document. I started a long time ago. I worked for a mec. contractor long ago, and the rule was: ‘If you didn’t write it down, it didn’t happen.’ That just carried over to everything I do.

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          2 days ago

          As in a blog or wiki? I do not because I am not authoritative. What I know came from reading, doing, screwing it up, ad nauseam. When something finally clicks for me, I write it down because 9 times out of 10, I will need that info later. But my writing would be so full of inaccuracies that it would be embarrassing and possibly lead someone astray.

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            8 hours ago

            It’s how cults start!

            I’ve started to take a l lot more notes at work I guess there will be a time where I take notes of what month it is!

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              5 hours ago

              I guess there will be a time where I take notes of what month it is!

              You may jest, but there are times when I can’t remember what I had for breakfast. They say that you never truly forget anything, but that our recall mechanism fades over time. For a myriad of reasons, including age, my recall mechanism is shit.