If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012 (ed. Penguin, 2012) - ISBN: 9781101612354