Is that how other people take notes? It seems really inefficient.
I always skip the punctuation, articles, and anything else that doesn’t get to the point. Then group sentences into pseudo-paragraphs by topic, each on its own line, with indents for nested clauses / intermediate steps / contextual notes. This is how I would summarize the first page from of the linked notes: http://pastebin.com/fCSpjm2R
Once you’ve done that, you open your notes in a week or so to see whether you wrote anything in a way which was only clear at the time (“Hedgehogs “know one big thing” and have a theory about the world”, but they didn’t define hedgehogs as the type of predictor Tetlock identified) and to try rearranging all of the points into high level perspective (There’s no obvious logical progression in the sequence of “intuition, attention, mood, doubting, …”).
Prose and conversational style are for the end product of write ups / presentations / explanations to strangers on the subway, not for integrating / restructuring knowledge.
Is that how other people take notes? It seems really inefficient.
I always skip the punctuation, articles, and anything else that doesn’t get to the point. Then group sentences into pseudo-paragraphs by topic, each on its own line, with indents for nested clauses / intermediate steps / contextual notes. This is how I would summarize the first page from of the linked notes: http://pastebin.com/fCSpjm2R
Once you’ve done that, you open your notes in a week or so to see whether you wrote anything in a way which was only clear at the time (“Hedgehogs “know one big thing” and have a theory about the world”, but they didn’t define hedgehogs as the type of predictor Tetlock identified) and to try rearranging all of the points into high level perspective (There’s no obvious logical progression in the sequence of “intuition, attention, mood, doubting, …”).
Prose and conversational style are for the end product of write ups / presentations / explanations to strangers on the subway, not for integrating / restructuring knowledge.