Black Swans Threat Your Note-Writing Too

How to shield your writing process to prevent the unpredictable

Adolfo Ramírez Corona
6 min readDec 17, 2021

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Your note-taking and writing are constantly at risk of Back Swans.

A Black Swan is a very unlikely event but highly catastrophic. Some catastrophic events are not extremely unlikely. We just think that they can’t happen because of some personal or professional…

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Adolfo Ramírez Corona

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