FieldNotes &mdash; Nate Dickson Thinks... https://thoughts.natedickson.com/tag:FieldNotes Small Thoughts for a Quiet World. Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:53:02 +0000 https://i.snap.as/Ex4mOou4.png FieldNotes &mdash; Nate Dickson Thinks... https://thoughts.natedickson.com/tag:FieldNotes Dear Self: Nobody Is Going to Read Your Notebooks. https://thoughts.natedickson.com/dear-self-nobody-is-going-to-read-your-notebooks?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[This is definitely a reminder I need from time to time. My pocket notebooks are never going to be part of the public record. I will never have to defend the half-thought things I dumped in a pocket notebook. Nobody will ever be impressed by what I wrote unless I work it into something bigger, and even then, it's unlikely anyone will ever much care. So I can just write. I can just catch little things, regardless of state of finish or polish. The inner editor isn't allowed in my pocket notebooks. #amwriting #notebooks #FieldNotes div class="signature" Thoughts? Tell me about them!br/ a href="https://social.lol/@natedickson"on Mastodon/a |del a href="https://thoughts.natedickson.com/a-farewell-to-twitter"on Twitter/a/del| on Remark.as a href="https://remark.as/p/thoughts.natedickson.com/dear-self-nobody-is-going-to-read-your-notebooks"Discuss.../a /div]]> This is definitely a reminder I need from time to time. My pocket notebooks are never going to be part of the public record. I will never have to defend the half-thought things I dumped in a pocket notebook. Nobody will ever be impressed by what I wrote unless I work it into something bigger, and even then, it's unlikely anyone will ever much care.

So I can just write. I can just catch little things, regardless of state of finish or polish. The inner editor isn't allowed in my pocket notebooks.

#amwriting #notebooks #FieldNotes

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