Dr. Cal Newport

And somehow that helps with the thinking.

So then I found this notebook because I store my old notebooks in my closet.

So I found it when I was working on a recent book.

I found it.

I went through it, right?

And then I started ticking off this turned into a paper, this turned into a grant.

This notebook, I used it for maybe two years.

I only used maybe about half the pages.

It's all very careful, neat script and diagrams.

I think I found seven different peer-reviewed papers or funded grants where the core ideas were in this notebook.

So it's like that $70 was an incredible investment because when I got to work in that notebook, it must have been pushing my thinking to a new level because it was an incredible concentration of actual publishable results were coming out of his pages.

Well, I mean, I've become a fan of this idea of having specialized capture for a specific type of work.

So for example, I'm a big believer in pretty quickly you want to capture ideas in the tool you use to do that work.

So when I have ideas for an article or a book, I'm going to go write the Scrivener, which is

specialty, this is specialty software writers used to write, right?

I want to go right to a Scrivener project and start putting these in the research section of that Scrivener project.

When I'm working on a math or computer science thing, I might work out proof ideas on paper, but I pretty quickly want to get that into a LaTeX document.

So the markup

language that you use for doing sort of like applied math papers, right?

The tool we use to actually write papers.