Friday, December 9, 2011
Journal Reflection
I liked doing an online journal more then doing a written journal. While I didn’t keep up on it nearly as much as I should I liked the opportunity to read and comment on other peoples blogs. I also hate writing things by hand and tend to dislike writing stored physically, unless it is a professionally bound book or of similar quality words in a processor just seem much more manageable. But I’ll return to the topic at hand instead of going off on a Howie style tangent. I did find it helpful to write a journal even though I didn’t do it with the intended frequency. It probably would have been more helpful if I had used it as a way to develop ongoing ideas rather then just idea dump at the end of every half quarter. That’s not to say my ideas didn’t progress I just didn’t record that progression so I could review it later, which would have been helpful. If you have the option to keep this online I would recommend doing so, even though I don’t feel particularly qualified to give that recommendation because I didn’t use it the way it was intended to be used.
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I agree that the online journal (or really any journal--the word "day" is embedded in the term, and the idea of a day-to-day record is inherent) functions best as an ongoing, regular kind of writing rather than an end-of-quarter "idea dump." But Soren, I will say that your idea dumps are usually full of pretty good stuff. Maybe aim for a more regular practice (which entails self-discipline, or personal responsibility!), and then a big end-of-quarter "summing up" that draws together important themes and observations from the shorter entries.
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