Hey, I have something in common with Ron Jeffries!

Jour Nal:

Of late, I only carry cards in my pocket to write on, and that’s an entirely different thing. In particular, there’s no continuity. That can be a good thing, or a bad thing.

The big advantage to the cards is that I read somewhere, many years ago, that you can recognize important people by the fact that they don’t carry anything. They don’t need to carry anything, because whatever they need, they just are, and because they have other people to carry their things for them. So I stopped carrying things, in hopes of being mistaken for someone of consequence. You have to start somewhere.

I too have taken lately to carrying a bunch of index cards around in my back pocket for occasional scribbling, and I rarely take a notebook to those meetings I fail to avoid (on the basis that someone’s bound to hand out some kind of printed material that I can write on).

Of course, the main difference is that Ron is ‘someone of consequence’!