What if "losing" an idea isn't actually a loss? Consider these possibilities:

• The space created by a forgotten idea might allow new, more relevant thoughts to emerge.


• Rediscovering an idea later, with fresh perspective, might lead to deeper insights.


• The process of repeatedly generating ideas might be more valuable than preserving specific ones.


• Our na

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I kept thinking about the uneven quality of time—the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was, that its real nature had finally been revealed. But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again, and it turned out that t

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