You Become What You Write About

Herbert Lui
5 min readJan 3, 2022
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No matter how fast digital software evolves, there are some habits and objects ground in the physical world that draw me towards them. One of these is physical notebooks, usually a Moleskine. I’ve filled out three of them the past couple of years, and brought a fourth half-filled with me halfway across the world. It goes everywhere with me, usually within arm’s length. I used to use Google Docs to take my meeting notes and weekly

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Herbert Lui

Covering the psychology of creative work for content creators, professionals, hobbyists, and independents. Author of Creative Doing: https://www.holloway.com/cd