#handwriting — Public Fediverse posts

University of Regina: In Her Own Hand: The Gladys Arnold Project. “We have partnered with Zooniverse to provide an exciting online crowd-sourced project. The University of Regina Archives has many primary sources about Gladys Arnold, a prize-winning Saskatchewan journalist. We request volunteers to transcribe her writings. In Her Own Hand: The Gladys Arnold Project consists of 4 […]

University of Regina: In Her Own Hand: The Gladys Arnold Project. “We have partnered with Zooniverse to provide an exciting online crowd-sourced project. The University of Regina Archives has many primary sources about Gladys Arnold, a prize-winning Saskatchewan journalist. We request volunteers to transcribe her writings. In Her Own Hand: The Gladys Arnold Project consists of 4 […]

Handwriting But Not Typewriting Leads To Widespread Brain Connectivity - A High-Density EEG Study With Implications For The Classroom
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10853352/ <-- shared paper
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/learning/what-teenagers-are-saying-about-writing-by-hand-in-the-digital-age.html <-- shared media article
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#handwriting #typewriting #typing #digital #brainconnectivity #coherence #highdensityEEG #youngadults #humanbrain #learning #compherension #understanding #composition #brain #connectivity #memory #understanding #information #spatiotemporal #visual #proprioceptive #writing #composition #spelling #motorskills #creative #polished #AI #memory #composition #concentration

Handwriting But Not Typewriting Leads To Widespread Brain Connectivity - A High-Density EEG Study With Implications For The Classroom
--
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10853352/ <-- shared paper
--
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/learning/what-teenagers-are-saying-about-writing-by-hand-in-the-digital-age.html <-- shared media article
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#handwriting #typewriting #typing #digital #brainconnectivity #coherence #highdensityEEG #youngadults #humanbrain #learning #compherension #understanding #composition #brain #connectivity #memory #understanding #information #spatiotemporal #visual #proprioceptive #writing #composition #spelling #motorskills #creative #polished #AI #memory #composition #concentration

Handwriting But Not Typewriting Leads To Widespread Brain Connectivity - A High-Density EEG Study With Implications For The Classroom
--
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10853352/ <-- shared paper
--
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/learning/what-teenagers-are-saying-about-writing-by-hand-in-the-digital-age.html <-- shared media article
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#handwriting #typewriting #typing #digital #brainconnectivity #coherence #highdensityEEG #youngadults #humanbrain #learning #compherension #understanding #composition #brain #connectivity #memory #understanding #information #spatiotemporal #visual #proprioceptive #writing #composition #spelling #motorskills #creative #polished #AI #memory #composition #concentration

Handwriting But Not Typewriting Leads To Widespread Brain Connectivity - A High-Density EEG Study With Implications For The Classroom
--
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10853352/ <-- shared paper
--
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/learning/what-teenagers-are-saying-about-writing-by-hand-in-the-digital-age.html <-- shared media article
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#handwriting #typewriting #typing #digital #brainconnectivity #coherence #highdensityEEG #youngadults #humanbrain #learning #compherension #understanding #composition #brain #connectivity #memory #understanding #information #spatiotemporal #visual #proprioceptive #writing #composition #spelling #motorskills #creative #polished #AI #memory #composition #concentration

Handwriting But Not Typewriting Leads To Widespread Brain Connectivity - A High-Density EEG Study With Implications For The Classroom
--
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10853352/ <-- shared paper
--
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/learning/what-teenagers-are-saying-about-writing-by-hand-in-the-digital-age.html <-- shared media article
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#handwriting #typewriting #typing #digital #brainconnectivity #coherence #highdensityEEG #youngadults #humanbrain #learning #compherension #understanding #composition #brain #connectivity #memory #understanding #information #spatiotemporal #visual #proprioceptive #writing #composition #spelling #motorskills #creative #polished #AI #memory #composition #concentration

Hello #Manila ! Today a little outing... yes i´m a huge fan of #journaling and #fountainpens !
Anybody outhere in #PasigCity who can show me the shortest way to send #handwritten #letters to #germany ? i would love to send a #handwrittenletter to Dr. M. in Europe once a week :-) And are there other fountainpen-junkies like me outthere ? write me friends !

#outingself #PasigCity #Manila #fountainpen #fountainpens #handwriting #letters #journalingtime #journaling

Hello #Manila ! Today a little outing... yes i´m a huge fan of #journaling and #fountainpens !
Anybody outhere in #PasigCity who can show me the shortest way to send #handwritten #letters to #germany ? i would love to send a #handwrittenletter to Dr. M. in Europe once a week :-) And are there other fountainpen-junkies like me outthere ? write me friends !

#outingself #PasigCity #Manila #fountainpen #fountainpens #handwriting #letters #journalingtime #journaling

Tarot and the Lo-Teks

Yesterday’s post was, obviously, about a new shop item on my ko-fi page. All the proceeds from my ko-fi page go toward web-hosting Sage Sips without ads, keeping the Substack paywall-free, and maybe generating a few donations for causes I care about (more about that in a later post.) I’m not going back into business. Handwritten Tarot readings are not a money-maker.

Trust me, I’ve tried it before.

I originally offered tangible, pen and paper Tarot readings years ago, when AI was the stuff of cyberpunk fiction – not anything anyone actually used in normal day-to-day life.

I’ve always been a William Gibson fan, dating back to Neuromancer. I originally offered handwritten Tarot because it was cool and niche. Bringing back handwritten Tarot is more the Lo-Teks from Gibson’s short story turned Keeanu Reeves movie, Johnny Mnemonic.

I never imagined that a person to person email with a digital photo would seem low-tech next to computer-generated art and writing, but here we are. Physical paper and handwriting seems like ancient, mysterious wizardshit by comparison.

If you want a talking type of reading – eesy peesy. There are psychics by the dozens out there doing that and it is up to you to figure out if they are trustworthy or not. (The Tao of Finding a Psychic might help) As far as I know, there are only a handful of us working in the typed-word and email formats, and fewer still that do handwritten pen and ink readings.

“A thought is powerful, the spoken word even more so, but the written word is the most powerful of all”

Sallie Christensen, psychic and author

I’m not going back into business, but I am offering these readings as a quiet rebellion against AI. This is my Lo-Tek Tarot.

Handwritten Tarot is magical and powerful – arguably even more so than spoken in-person ones. This kind of Tarot can never be digitally replicated. My bad handwriting and cringy doodles show you they are 100% real, 100% HUMAN .

Handwritten Tarot has all the advantages of any distance reading: You can’t unintentionally give body language cues. There are no leading questions, no stage mentalism, no tricks – these readings are pure spirit and intuition. No drama, no AI slop – just quiet wisdom in the ancient way of pen and ink writing.

Please include your name, U.S. mailing address, and question for the reading with your order. If you don’t include a question or topic, no problem! I’ll automatically do an open style reading and let intuition lead the way.

Sent folded into a standard #10 envelope, this Tarot reading is discreet and private. This is highly customized folk art with no refunds or exchanges. Available to USA mailing addresses ONLY.

This nominal charge is only to cover the cost of paper, postage, driving to the post office and the extra effort that these take to create.

Just like always, these readings are highly customized ephemeral folk art for entertainment and personal spritual enrichment, and do not predict the future. No refunds or exchanges or any of that other business-y stuff. Caveat emptor and whatnot.

Order one from my ko-fi shop HERE if you are interested in giving it a try.

Tarot and the Lo-Teks

Yesterday’s post was, obviously, about a new shop item on my ko-fi page. All the proceeds from my ko-fi page go toward web-hosting Sage Sips without ads, keeping the Substack paywall-free, and maybe generating a few donations for causes I care about (more about that in a later post.) I’m not going back into business. Handwritten Tarot readings are not a money-maker.

Trust me, I’ve tried it before.

I originally offered tangible, pen and paper Tarot readings years ago, when AI was the stuff of cyberpunk fiction – not anything anyone actually used in normal day-to-day life.

I’ve always been a William Gibson fan, dating back to Neuromancer. I originally offered handwritten Tarot because it was cool and niche. Bringing back handwritten Tarot is more the Lo-Teks from Gibson’s short story turned Keeanu Reeves movie, Johnny Mnemonic.

I never imagined that a person to person email with a digital photo would seem low-tech next to computer-generated art and writing, but here we are. Physical paper and handwriting seems like ancient, mysterious wizardshit by comparison.

If you want a talking type of reading – eesy peesy. There are psychics by the dozens out there doing that and it is up to you to figure out if they are trustworthy or not. (The Tao of Finding a Psychic might help) As far as I know, there are only a handful of us working in the typed-word and email formats, and fewer still that do handwritten pen and ink readings.

“A thought is powerful, the spoken word even more so, but the written word is the most powerful of all”

Sallie Christensen, psychic and author

I’m not going back into business, but I am offering these readings as a quiet rebellion against AI. This is my Lo-Tek Tarot.

Handwritten Tarot is magical and powerful – arguably even more so than spoken in-person ones. This kind of Tarot can never be digitally replicated. My bad handwriting and cringy doodles show you they are 100% real, 100% HUMAN .

Handwritten Tarot has all the advantages of any distance reading: You can’t unintentionally give body language cues. There are no leading questions, no stage mentalism, no tricks – these readings are pure spirit and intuition. No drama, no AI slop – just quiet wisdom in the ancient way of pen and ink writing.

Please include your name, U.S. mailing address, and question for the reading with your order. If you don’t include a question or topic, no problem! I’ll automatically do an open style reading and let intuition lead the way.

Sent folded into a standard #10 envelope, this Tarot reading is discreet and private. This is highly customized folk art with no refunds or exchanges. Available to USA mailing addresses ONLY.

This nominal charge is only to cover the cost of paper, postage, driving to the post office and the extra effort that these take to create.

Just like always, these readings are highly customized ephemeral folk art for entertainment and personal spritual enrichment, and do not predict the future. No refunds or exchanges or any of that other business-y stuff. Caveat emptor and whatnot.

Order one from my ko-fi shop HERE if you are interested in giving it a try.

I have been wanting to play with these weld bends and bending my handwriting. There is an old neon tradition of "block out tubing" that was actually spliced in so that there would be no paint to chip.

I like the idea of using darker colors as the "block out" glass for all the connections. Its certainly an extra challenge, but I am liking the look.

I am gonna be bending neon at Brooklyn Glass's Hot Glass Cold Beer on Saturday. I get most of my neon tubing from there (they import from Italy) and I think this would be nice in a nice warm white and non coated cobalt blue. It took me 1, 3/4 hours to make "CHOOSE" out of scraps I had (whoops, got the whites mixed up :) )

My mom used to preach this to me when I was in high school. It changed my life... but I still sometimes feel like I can delude myself into feeling happy about a crappy situation.

https://brooklynglass.com/index.php/hot-glass-cold-beer-2/

#neon #brooklyn #event #handwriting #handmade #craft #glass #color #scraps #hotglasscoldbeer #attitude #test #studio

I have been wanting to play with these weld bends and bending my handwriting. There is an old neon tradition of "block out tubing" that was actually spliced in so that there would be no paint to chip.

I like the idea of using darker colors as the "block out" glass for all the connections. Its certainly an extra challenge, but I am liking the look.

I am gonna be bending neon at Brooklyn Glass's Hot Glass Cold Beer on Saturday. I get most of my neon tubing from there (they import from Italy) and I think this would be nice in a nice warm white and non coated cobalt blue. It took me 1, 3/4 hours to make "CHOOSE" out of scraps I had (whoops, got the whites mixed up :) )

My mom used to preach this to me when I was in high school. It changed my life... but I still sometimes feel like I can delude myself into feeling happy about a crappy situation.

https://brooklynglass.com/index.php/hot-glass-cold-beer-2/

#neon #brooklyn #event #handwriting #handmade #craft #glass #color #scraps #hotglasscoldbeer #attitude #test #studio

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

And . . . Do Those Sheep Hallucinate Bullshit?

(AI Detective FAILS for Your Consideration)

Who is running this Artificial Intelligence? This Fatuous Forensic Criminology? This Whole Worldwide Factoid News Media?

May God Allied Mastercomputer help us!

I don’t want to hear any of the crap from the tech apologists who are going to cry, “Oh, that’s not AI; that’s just glorified autocomplete!”

Your problem, not mine.

If it’s calling itself “AI” or the humans who designed it have labeled it, “AI” – as you can clearly witness from the screen captures – then I judge it as AI.

So . . .

FAIL!

. . . Next!

. . . Another killer on the loose . . .

Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand) – Inc.com

Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand)

And then do a quick review the next morning.

EXPERT OPINION BY JEFF HADEN @JEFF_HADEN, Jan 22, 2026

Illustration: Getty Images

Listen to this Article More info, 0:00 / 3:41

When I spoke at the Arabian Business Awards a few years ago, I showed a slide describing research that shows meetings literally make people dumber: a study published in Transcripts of the Royal Society of London found that meetings cause you to (during the meeting) lose IQ points.

A bunch of people in the audience took photos of that slide.

The same was true when I presented a slide describing research published in Journal of Business Research showing that not only do 90 percent of employees feel meetings are unproductive, but when the number of meetings is reduced by 40 percent employee productivity increases by 70 percent.

A bunch of people took photos of that slide, too.

Both findings seem easy to remember, if only because the research confirms what most people feel about meetings: Most of the time, the only person who thinks a meeting is important is the person who called the meeting. But what if you really wanted to remember that meetings tend to make participants dumber, and tend to negatively impact overall productivity?

Or, more broadly, have a better shot of remembering things you really want to remember? Don’t take photos.

In a study published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a variety of memory-boosting strategies: taking photos, typing notes, and writing notes by hand.

As you can probably guess, people who wrote notes by hand scored the highest on subsequent recall and comprehension tests, even when people who took photos or typed verbatim notes were allowed to review those items before they took the tests.

Or maybe you couldn’t guess that: The researchers also found that “learners were not cognizant of the advantages of longhand note-taking, but misjudged all three techniques to be equally effective.”

So why does taking notes by hand work so well? According to the researchers:

Longhand note-takers mind-wandered less and, in turn, demonstrated superior retention of the lecture content.

Which makes sense. Taking a photo requires no “mental participation” at all. You don’t have to consider, synthesize, decide how you’ll capture the information in shorthand, etc. Typing notes verbatim — for example, transcribing a lecture or meeting recording — is more of a process than a thought exercise. The focus is on accuracy, not retention. (I can type fast enough to capture everything someone says in real time, but that doesn’t mean I remember any of it without reviewing what I’ve typed.)

Maybe that’s why Richard Branson carries a notebook everywhere he goes. (Literally: I’ve seen him with one at least 10 times.) Summarizing, putting concepts or ideas in your own words, deciding not just what to write, but how to write it — all those things engage different parts of your brain, and therefore improve your retention and recall.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand)

Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand) – Inc.com

Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand)

And then do a quick review the next morning.

EXPERT OPINION BY JEFF HADEN @JEFF_HADEN, Jan 22, 2026

Illustration: Getty Images

Listen to this Article More info, 0:00 / 3:41

When I spoke at the Arabian Business Awards a few years ago, I showed a slide describing research that shows meetings literally make people dumber: a study published in Transcripts of the Royal Society of London found that meetings cause you to (during the meeting) lose IQ points.

A bunch of people in the audience took photos of that slide.

The same was true when I presented a slide describing research published in Journal of Business Research showing that not only do 90 percent of employees feel meetings are unproductive, but when the number of meetings is reduced by 40 percent employee productivity increases by 70 percent.

A bunch of people took photos of that slide, too.

Both findings seem easy to remember, if only because the research confirms what most people feel about meetings: Most of the time, the only person who thinks a meeting is important is the person who called the meeting. But what if you really wanted to remember that meetings tend to make participants dumber, and tend to negatively impact overall productivity?

Or, more broadly, have a better shot of remembering things you really want to remember? Don’t take photos.

In a study published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a variety of memory-boosting strategies: taking photos, typing notes, and writing notes by hand.

As you can probably guess, people who wrote notes by hand scored the highest on subsequent recall and comprehension tests, even when people who took photos or typed verbatim notes were allowed to review those items before they took the tests.

Or maybe you couldn’t guess that: The researchers also found that “learners were not cognizant of the advantages of longhand note-taking, but misjudged all three techniques to be equally effective.”

So why does taking notes by hand work so well? According to the researchers:

Longhand note-takers mind-wandered less and, in turn, demonstrated superior retention of the lecture content.

Which makes sense. Taking a photo requires no “mental participation” at all. You don’t have to consider, synthesize, decide how you’ll capture the information in shorthand, etc. Typing notes verbatim — for example, transcribing a lecture or meeting recording — is more of a process than a thought exercise. The focus is on accuracy, not retention. (I can type fast enough to capture everything someone says in real time, but that doesn’t mean I remember any of it without reviewing what I’ve typed.)

Maybe that’s why Richard Branson carries a notebook everywhere he goes. (Literally: I’ve seen him with one at least 10 times.) Summarizing, putting concepts or ideas in your own words, deciding not just what to write, but how to write it — all those things engage different parts of your brain, and therefore improve your retention and recall.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand)

Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand) – Inc.com

Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand)

And then do a quick review the next morning.

EXPERT OPINION BY JEFF HADEN @JEFF_HADEN, Jan 22, 2026

Illustration: Getty Images

Listen to this Article More info, 0:00 / 3:41

When I spoke at the Arabian Business Awards a few years ago, I showed a slide describing research that shows meetings literally make people dumber: a study published in Transcripts of the Royal Society of London found that meetings cause you to (during the meeting) lose IQ points.

A bunch of people in the audience took photos of that slide.

The same was true when I presented a slide describing research published in Journal of Business Research showing that not only do 90 percent of employees feel meetings are unproductive, but when the number of meetings is reduced by 40 percent employee productivity increases by 70 percent.

A bunch of people took photos of that slide, too.

Both findings seem easy to remember, if only because the research confirms what most people feel about meetings: Most of the time, the only person who thinks a meeting is important is the person who called the meeting. But what if you really wanted to remember that meetings tend to make participants dumber, and tend to negatively impact overall productivity?

Or, more broadly, have a better shot of remembering things you really want to remember? Don’t take photos.

In a study published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a variety of memory-boosting strategies: taking photos, typing notes, and writing notes by hand.

As you can probably guess, people who wrote notes by hand scored the highest on subsequent recall and comprehension tests, even when people who took photos or typed verbatim notes were allowed to review those items before they took the tests.

Or maybe you couldn’t guess that: The researchers also found that “learners were not cognizant of the advantages of longhand note-taking, but misjudged all three techniques to be equally effective.”

So why does taking notes by hand work so well? According to the researchers:

Longhand note-takers mind-wandered less and, in turn, demonstrated superior retention of the lecture content.

Which makes sense. Taking a photo requires no “mental participation” at all. You don’t have to consider, synthesize, decide how you’ll capture the information in shorthand, etc. Typing notes verbatim — for example, transcribing a lecture or meeting recording — is more of a process than a thought exercise. The focus is on accuracy, not retention. (I can type fast enough to capture everything someone says in real time, but that doesn’t mean I remember any of it without reviewing what I’ve typed.)

Maybe that’s why Richard Branson carries a notebook everywhere he goes. (Literally: I’ve seen him with one at least 10 times.) Summarizing, putting concepts or ideas in your own words, deciding not just what to write, but how to write it — all those things engage different parts of your brain, and therefore improve your retention and recall.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand)

Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand) – Inc.com

Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand)

And then do a quick review the next morning.

EXPERT OPINION BY JEFF HADEN @JEFF_HADEN, Jan 22, 2026

Illustration: Getty Images

Listen to this Article More info, 0:00 / 3:41

When I spoke at the Arabian Business Awards a few years ago, I showed a slide describing research that shows meetings literally make people dumber: a study published in Transcripts of the Royal Society of London found that meetings cause you to (during the meeting) lose IQ points.

A bunch of people in the audience took photos of that slide.

The same was true when I presented a slide describing research published in Journal of Business Research showing that not only do 90 percent of employees feel meetings are unproductive, but when the number of meetings is reduced by 40 percent employee productivity increases by 70 percent.

A bunch of people took photos of that slide, too.

Both findings seem easy to remember, if only because the research confirms what most people feel about meetings: Most of the time, the only person who thinks a meeting is important is the person who called the meeting. But what if you really wanted to remember that meetings tend to make participants dumber, and tend to negatively impact overall productivity?

Or, more broadly, have a better shot of remembering things you really want to remember? Don’t take photos.

In a study published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a variety of memory-boosting strategies: taking photos, typing notes, and writing notes by hand.

As you can probably guess, people who wrote notes by hand scored the highest on subsequent recall and comprehension tests, even when people who took photos or typed verbatim notes were allowed to review those items before they took the tests.

Or maybe you couldn’t guess that: The researchers also found that “learners were not cognizant of the advantages of longhand note-taking, but misjudged all three techniques to be equally effective.”

So why does taking notes by hand work so well? According to the researchers:

Longhand note-takers mind-wandered less and, in turn, demonstrated superior retention of the lecture content.

Which makes sense. Taking a photo requires no “mental participation” at all. You don’t have to consider, synthesize, decide how you’ll capture the information in shorthand, etc. Typing notes verbatim — for example, transcribing a lecture or meeting recording — is more of a process than a thought exercise. The focus is on accuracy, not retention. (I can type fast enough to capture everything someone says in real time, but that doesn’t mean I remember any of it without reviewing what I’ve typed.)

Maybe that’s why Richard Branson carries a notebook everywhere he goes. (Literally: I’ve seen him with one at least 10 times.) Summarizing, putting concepts or ideas in your own words, deciding not just what to write, but how to write it — all those things engage different parts of your brain, and therefore improve your retention and recall.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand)

Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand) – Inc.com

Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand)

And then do a quick review the next morning.

EXPERT OPINION BY JEFF HADEN @JEFF_HADEN, Jan 22, 2026

Illustration: Getty Images

Listen to this Article More info, 0:00 / 3:41

When I spoke at the Arabian Business Awards a few years ago, I showed a slide describing research that shows meetings literally make people dumber: a study published in Transcripts of the Royal Society of London found that meetings cause you to (during the meeting) lose IQ points.

A bunch of people in the audience took photos of that slide.

The same was true when I presented a slide describing research published in Journal of Business Research showing that not only do 90 percent of employees feel meetings are unproductive, but when the number of meetings is reduced by 40 percent employee productivity increases by 70 percent.

A bunch of people took photos of that slide, too.

Both findings seem easy to remember, if only because the research confirms what most people feel about meetings: Most of the time, the only person who thinks a meeting is important is the person who called the meeting. But what if you really wanted to remember that meetings tend to make participants dumber, and tend to negatively impact overall productivity?

Or, more broadly, have a better shot of remembering things you really want to remember? Don’t take photos.

In a study published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a variety of memory-boosting strategies: taking photos, typing notes, and writing notes by hand.

As you can probably guess, people who wrote notes by hand scored the highest on subsequent recall and comprehension tests, even when people who took photos or typed verbatim notes were allowed to review those items before they took the tests.

Or maybe you couldn’t guess that: The researchers also found that “learners were not cognizant of the advantages of longhand note-taking, but misjudged all three techniques to be equally effective.”

So why does taking notes by hand work so well? According to the researchers:

Longhand note-takers mind-wandered less and, in turn, demonstrated superior retention of the lecture content.

Which makes sense. Taking a photo requires no “mental participation” at all. You don’t have to consider, synthesize, decide how you’ll capture the information in shorthand, etc. Typing notes verbatim — for example, transcribing a lecture or meeting recording — is more of a process than a thought exercise. The focus is on accuracy, not retention. (I can type fast enough to capture everything someone says in real time, but that doesn’t mean I remember any of it without reviewing what I’ve typed.)

Maybe that’s why Richard Branson carries a notebook everywhere he goes. (Literally: I’ve seen him with one at least 10 times.) Summarizing, putting concepts or ideas in your own words, deciding not just what to write, but how to write it — all those things engage different parts of your brain, and therefore improve your retention and recall.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand)

Technology Killed My Handwriting https://mtwb.blog/technology-killed-my-handwriting/ #writing #amwritign #penmanship #handwriting #lostskills #blogging #blog #blogpost #bloggingcommunity

Technology Killed My Handwriting https://mtwb.blog/technology-killed-my-handwriting/ #writing #amwritign #penmanship #handwriting #lostskills #blogging #blog #blogpost #bloggingcommunity

Technology Killed My Handwriting https://mtwb.blog/technology-killed-my-handwriting/ #writing #amwritign #penmanship #handwriting #lostskills #blogging #blog #blogpost #bloggingcommunity

Technology Killed My Handwriting https://mtwb.blog/technology-killed-my-handwriting/ #writing #amwritign #penmanship #handwriting #lostskills #blogging #blog #blogpost #bloggingcommunity

This. This, this, and more this.
It's amazing and devastating to me how much beauty of experience humanity is being alienated from. Handwriting is an old, maybe even first love of mine that continues to survive and thrive. My earliest, pre-school memories are of wanting it, trying to do it. My Grandmother, whose writing I still have and adore, would write out practice sheets for me, well outside of any school requirement, and there, consequently, I was miles ahead. I practised types of calligraphy for fun as a child and still have all the books I was gifted for Christmas and birthdays with their carefully ruled exercises. Letter writing is still one of my favourite pastimes, and I enjoy receiving them, though much more rare an occurance, just as much. There's an intimacy and demonstrated labour in such a thing, a gift in itself "I was thinking about you, I miss you" and a handwritten letter is indisputable proof of same. And in all of that, even in some innocuous appt where I sign my name or jot a note I am complimented on my handwriting, even when I think it's dreadful from my brain fog or shaky carpal tunnel ridden wrists. But that compliment is mine, I did that thing, it's unique to me, and one of the few I take without questioning its agenda. It's part of who I am, my attention to detail, conscientiousness, practice, a hint at my aesthetics, and the periods of history I learned from. I honestly adore seeing these things peep out from the insides of others through their hands, and wish more people could experience that simple everyday joy of creating with their hands and sharing that with others in mutual appreciation.

Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/21/signature-moves-are-we-losing-the-ability-to-write-by-hand?CMP=share_btn_url

#Alienation #Handwriting #Creativity #Making #ByHand #Hands

This. This, this, and more this.
It's amazing and devastating to me how much beauty of experience humanity is being alienated from. Handwriting is an old, maybe even first love of mine that continues to survive and thrive. My earliest, pre-school memories are of wanting it, trying to do it. My Grandmother, whose writing I still have and adore, would write out practice sheets for me, well outside of any school requirement, and there, consequently, I was miles ahead. I practised types of calligraphy for fun as a child and still have all the books I was gifted for Christmas and birthdays with their carefully ruled exercises. Letter writing is still one of my favourite pastimes, and I enjoy receiving them, though much more rare an occurance, just as much. There's an intimacy and demonstrated labour in such a thing, a gift in itself "I was thinking about you, I miss you" and a handwritten letter is indisputable proof of same. And in all of that, even in some innocuous appt where I sign my name or jot a note I am complimented on my handwriting, even when I think it's dreadful from my brain fog or shaky carpal tunnel ridden wrists. But that compliment is mine, I did that thing, it's unique to me, and one of the few I take without questioning its agenda. It's part of who I am, my attention to detail, conscientiousness, practice, a hint at my aesthetics, and the periods of history I learned from. I honestly adore seeing these things peep out from the insides of others through their hands, and wish more people could experience that simple everyday joy of creating with their hands and sharing that with others in mutual appreciation.

Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/21/signature-moves-are-we-losing-the-ability-to-write-by-hand?CMP=share_btn_url

#Alienation #Handwriting #Creativity #Making #ByHand #Hands

This. This, this, and more this.
It's amazing and devastating to me how much beauty of experience humanity is being alienated from. Handwriting is an old, maybe even first love of mine that continues to survive and thrive. My earliest, pre-school memories are of wanting it, trying to do it. My Grandmother, whose writing I still have and adore, would write out practice sheets for me, well outside of any school requirement, and there, consequently, I was miles ahead. I practised types of calligraphy for fun as a child and still have all the books I was gifted for Christmas and birthdays with their carefully ruled exercises. Letter writing is still one of my favourite pastimes, and I enjoy receiving them, though much more rare an occurance, just as much. There's an intimacy and demonstrated labour in such a thing, a gift in itself "I was thinking about you, I miss you" and a handwritten letter is indisputable proof of same. And in all of that, even in some innocuous appt where I sign my name or jot a note I am complimented on my handwriting, even when I think it's dreadful from my brain fog or shaky carpal tunnel ridden wrists. But that compliment is mine, I did that thing, it's unique to me, and one of the few I take without questioning its agenda. It's part of who I am, my attention to detail, conscientiousness, practice, a hint at my aesthetics, and the periods of history I learned from. I honestly adore seeing these things peep out from the insides of others through their hands, and wish more people could experience that simple everyday joy of creating with their hands and sharing that with others in mutual appreciation.

Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/21/signature-moves-are-we-losing-the-ability-to-write-by-hand?CMP=share_btn_url

#Alienation #Handwriting #Creativity #Making #ByHand #Hands

This. This, this, and more this.
It's amazing and devastating to me how much beauty of experience humanity is being alienated from. Handwriting is an old, maybe even first love of mine that continues to survive and thrive. My earliest, pre-school memories are of wanting it, trying to do it. My Grandmother, whose writing I still have and adore, would write out practice sheets for me, well outside of any school requirement, and there, consequently, I was miles ahead. I practised types of calligraphy for fun as a child and still have all the books I was gifted for Christmas and birthdays with their carefully ruled exercises. Letter writing is still one of my favourite pastimes, and I enjoy receiving them, though much more rare an occurance, just as much. There's an intimacy and demonstrated labour in such a thing, a gift in itself "I was thinking about you, I miss you" and a handwritten letter is indisputable proof of same. And in all of that, even in some innocuous appt where I sign my name or jot a note I am complimented on my handwriting, even when I think it's dreadful from my brain fog or shaky carpal tunnel ridden wrists. But that compliment is mine, I did that thing, it's unique to me, and one of the few I take without questioning its agenda. It's part of who I am, my attention to detail, conscientiousness, practice, a hint at my aesthetics, and the periods of history I learned from. I honestly adore seeing these things peep out from the insides of others through their hands, and wish more people could experience that simple everyday joy of creating with their hands and sharing that with others in mutual appreciation.

Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/21/signature-moves-are-we-losing-the-ability-to-write-by-hand?CMP=share_btn_url

#Alienation #Handwriting #Creativity #Making #ByHand #Hands

#poésiefrançaise #ecrituremanuscrite

#poésie #poème #écriture
#manuscrit #styloplume
#vers #rime #rimes #rythme
#alexandrins #quatrain #quatrains
#poète #auteur #littérature #poèmes

#frenchpoetry #poem #poems #poetry
#writing #writings #handwriting

My dead father is “writing” me notes again - Enlarge / An AI-generated image featuring my late father's handwriting.... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2045545 #handwritingsynthesis #machinelearning #imagesynthesis #aihandwriting #airegulation #frostedprick #handwriting #barbarians #dadioshack #aiconsent #deepfakes #replicate #features #aiethics #fluxdev #biz⁢ #father #flux.1 #d&ad #flux #ai

My dead father is “writing” me notes again - Enlarge / An AI-generated image featuring my late father's handwriting.... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2045545 #handwritingsynthesis #machinelearning #imagesynthesis #aihandwriting #airegulation #frostedprick #handwriting #barbarians #dadioshack #aiconsent #deepfakes #replicate #features #aiethics #fluxdev #biz⁢ #father #flux.1 #d&ad #flux #ai

My dead father is “writing” me notes again - Enlarge / An AI-generated image featuring my late father's handwriting.... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2045545 #handwritingsynthesis #machinelearning #imagesynthesis #aihandwriting #airegulation #frostedprick #handwriting #barbarians #dadioshack #aiconsent #deepfakes #replicate #features #aiethics #fluxdev #biz⁢ #father #flux.1 #d&ad #flux #ai

My dead father is “writing” me notes again - Enlarge / An AI-generated image featuring my late father's handwriting.... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2045545 #handwritingsynthesis #machinelearning #imagesynthesis #aihandwriting #airegulation #frostedprick #handwriting #barbarians #dadioshack #aiconsent #deepfakes #replicate #features #aiethics #fluxdev #biz⁢ #father #flux.1 #d&ad #flux #ai

My dead father is “writing” me notes again - Enlarge / An AI-generated image featuring my late father's handwriting.... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2045545 #handwritingsynthesis #machinelearning #imagesynthesis #aihandwriting #airegulation #frostedprick #handwriting #barbarians #dadioshack #aiconsent #deepfakes #replicate #features #aiethics #fluxdev #biz⁢ #father #flux.1 #d&ad #flux #ai

Now for something totally different. I have a collection of ephemera. I was playing around with some marbling on it to create this painting.

Find it at :
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/102029955?asc=u

#AYearForArt #ephemera #Marbling #MastoArt #Art #FineArt #Prints #Giftware #HomeDecor #abstractart #Numbers #handwriting #antique

#procreate #lernos #lernossketchnoting #visualthinking #visualnotes #doodle #doodles #doodlesketch #doodleart #storytelling #storytellingwithsketchnotes #sketchnotestories #sketchnotes #sketchnoting #digitalsketchnotes #lettering #handwriting #letteringstyle #conceptsapp #edmund2022 #agile #smartsketchnotes #obsidianmd #obsidian #zettelkasten #workingoutloud #wol #powerbi