Editor’s note: I wrote this essay of approximately 7,000 words in about half a day’s work, including outlining, footnoting, and editing by drawing material directly from my own hybrid commonplace books/Luhmann-based Zettelkasten.
Not really an Editor's Note as much as a Writer's, but this is in some sense the money quote and indicates the value to Chris of his practice. It would be instructive, I think, to see the raw material and how this essay emerged from it, but drawing aside the curtain may also dispel a lot of the magic.