And I’ll be staring at my notes, thinking, What in the world made me think this was worth… | by Jack Herlocker | Medium

I NEVER remember it. NEVER. Sometimes — and I think this is worse than total amnesia — , I’ll remember the GIST of it, but forget the hook, or the punchline, or the context or reason I wanted to write it…basically, I forgot whatever it was that would have made it worth reading.

This happens to me LITERALLY every, single day.

Alexainie

1 min readApr 4, 2017

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And I’ll be staring at my notes, thinking, What in the world made me think this was worth developing?

Jack Herlocker

Written by Jack Herlocker

Husband & retiree. Developer, tech writer, & IT geek. I fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches. Occasionally do weird & goofy things.

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