#WasteBooks are *not* a method to be more productive or efficient. (p. 26) .

New Field Notes Brand subscription just arrived. Be my heart! #WasteBooks

#WasteBooks are *not* a method to be more productive or efficient. (p. 26)

Make sure you throw them on fertile ground. #WasteBooks #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

I am faced with heading up a major project that I've wanted for 20 years, and the most pressing decision I have to make before I commit to it is... which of these #WasteBooks should I use to organize the whole thing??

#WasteBooks are *not* a method to be more productive or efficient. (p. 26) .

Waste-book method highly recommended. A note made of every phrase, every expression. Wealth can also be acquired through saving up truths in pennyworths. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.164 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

Waste-book method highly recommended. A note made of every phrase, every expression. Wealth can also be acquired through saving up truths in pennyworths. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.164 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

The first appearance of the 9th Symphony appeared in Beethoven’s sketchbooks a full ten years before the premiere in 1824. (p. 32) #WasteBooks

#WasteBooks are *not* a method to be more productive or efficient. (p. 26) .

I have jotted down a host of little thoughts and sketches, but they are awaiting not so much a final revision as a few more glimpses of the sun that will make them blossom. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook B.55 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

The first appearance of the 9th Symphony appeared in Beethoven’s sketchbooks a full ten years before the premiere in 1824. (p. 32) #WasteBooks

@the_roamer I'd have to go back through all 13 Sudelbücher (#WasteBooks) to see, but I imagine he would describe it as *their* wasted opportunity.

If you make enough little things, at some point you will have big things to deal with. #WasteBooks #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

In Beethoven’s #WasteBooks we can see eight different beginnings to his Symphony No. 5. With each iteration, he listened and found that it was not quite right. (p. 69) #SuccessiveApproximation

In Beethoven’s #WasteBooks we can see eight different beginnings to his Symphony No. 5. With each iteration, he listened and found that it was not quite right. (p. 69) #SuccessiveApproximation

#WasteBooks are wild patches of garden where you throw *all* the seeds of ideas without any concern about which ones will ever bloom. (p. 26)

Make sure you throw them on fertile ground. #WasteBooks #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

#WasteBooks are *not* a method to be more productive or efficient. (p. 26) .

Make sure you throw them on fertile ground. #WasteBooks #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes