Do we need to write it all down?
The author writes against journaling in this article:
The minute-by-minute might interest the future self, but often not the self who is living it.
However, journaling comes with its upsides when we need to look back:
If we do not journal, we are left with memory: fallible, slipshod memory.
If you are not writing it all down, the reasoning goes, constantly creating material so that it may pay dividends in the future, what the hell are you doing?
All true, but maybe sometimes we need to appreciate memory and its different role:
Recognizing that memory is not merely an inferior keeper of records, but an alternate form of truth in itself.