Lessons from a 1600-page transcription: general thinking resists staying organized
fkasummer · x · 2026-11-12
Reflecting on a 1600-page transcription effort, the author notes that staying organized is easy in engineering work but hard in general thinking, especially when the problem undergoes "ontological restructuring" as you make progress — the problem's own definition keeps shifting under you.
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