
How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book”

ReNoted: Marginalia, or 5 Ways to Write in Your Books
jillianhess.substack.comThis passage from Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From, which is discussing Darwin’s use of keeping a commonplace book (a practice I have always loved myself) as a vital part of where his most important ideas came from, just jumped off the page at me:
“The great minds of the period —Milton, Bacon, Locke were zealous believers in the
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