I feel like this might just be me playing into the hands of advertisers, but...

I just saw an ad for (oh actually I can't remember which company) a type of White Tea. There's a dude in a field asking what makes white tea so good, and an old asian guy says something like 'we take the tea leave while it is young and still light colored, and then we Pluck It!' I've seen it a few times before and every time I've marveled at how subtly fucked up the sentiment is.

Just felt like mentioning it.


This post is kind of shitty. I felt compelled to write it, because 1) I keep wanting to tell someone about this ad, and always forgetting and 2) I just started reading a free online book on notebooking - How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Ever Think I was inspired by a phrase he repeats: "just SPITTING THIS TEXT OUT."

I am pretty excited to try out the methods talked about in this book. I've been thinking on and off (mostly while in class, or drifting off to sleep) about the problem of containing and organizing all the information I'm going to need to know to be productive. A map was a possible idea I had, and then today I just randomly stumbled upon the book, which is written in quick, easily read (if slightly scattered) prose.

What grabbed me, what really made me want to pay attention to him was this passage:

For all of this immobility, this freezing, for all of these negative effects, why on Earth would anyone want to do this?

Because of the INCREDIBLE CLARITY that comes with it. It may feel like, doing this, that for the first time in your life, you REALLY have a CLEAR IDEA of what kinds of thoughts are going through your head. You'll really understand your ideas. And you'll also see connections that you were never consciously aware of before. You'll see a structure and a pattern in your life. You're goals and psychology will become clearer to you. You'll be clearer too about what you do NOT understand.

How could anybody not want that?

So to recap:
1) Weird Tea commercial
2) Weird Notebooking theories