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Which setting did you have in mind? I’ve brought my iPad with keyboard case to C-suite meetings and felt good about it, but I’m imagining a TV-style board meeting with no electronics to be seen.

You summed up my own relationship with paper very well. I don't begrudge people who use it as their primary system, but all the advantages you describe (plus the fact that I can type for infinity while my hand cramps up after a page of writing) make digital the clear winner.

I still write paper letters to my mom, but typically by printing them from text and including a picture of the grandkids.




On digital devices it's not clear if you're taking notes or writing an unrelated email.

Paper notebooks can't send email, so if a person sees you interacting with it they'll think you're taking notes, which means you're taking them seriously.


Yeah, I could see that. Good point.

I deal with that in other contexts, like Zoom meetings, by narrating what I’m doing:

Coworker: Could you do X for me?

Me: OK. I’m writing a reminder to myself here… type type type

…which seems to get a positive response from people I’m talking to.




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