And I've spent practically nothing.

They are practically impossible to eradicate and the perfect parasite taxi.

I mean, I practically wrote a book on parodying them.

Plus, it's practically a visual shorthand for political messaging and posters now.

And growing faster than 2% annually is practically impossible for the US economy.

I think it's practically impossible to go through this.

Goodness, the place is practically held together by them.

Commonplacing was very popular in the 17th century and then Grangerising and extra illustrating was popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. But both of them are very similar in terms of the practice. I was really struck by it when I was reading about Grangerising just how similar the two are. Because in commonplacing you take a notebook and you make this into a little personal encyclopedia and when you Grangerise a book you turn a printed volume into a kind of encyclopedia. But in both cases you are compiling related information into a volume which then becomes very personal. And I think that's a wonderful frame to enter the practice of Grangerising. It's very similar to commonplacing and I would see it as an extension of commonplacing and commonplace book culture. If you want to learn more about the act of commonplacing and how to start a commonplace book in particular which is adjacent to the process of Grangerising a book then I actually have created a course all about commonplacing and how you can use the practice of commonplacing to cultivate curiosity. I created this course with Skillshare and it gives a deep dive into the history, practices, how to start a commonplace book and actually how to practically use a commonplace book to change the way that you think. Skillshare is of course the world's largest online learning community and it's a place where you can learn anything, any kind of skill. You think of it and you search it up and I'm sure somebody will have made a course on it. You can learn practical skills like video editing, marketing, graphic design but there are also so many classes around thinking and reading. Particularly relevant perhaps if you're watching this video and you're interested in changing the way that you read and you want to kind of be intentional about the act of reading, what it means to read, I would recommend you looking at Robin

And that was also a risk management tool that the Romans, the Romans practically have discovered so many things.

That's the format, and now I talk to people for an hour, and I just talked to, you know, one of my all-time heroes from when I was a kid, Carol Burnett, and talked to her for an hour, and I left the interview, and I'm driving home thinking about me as a kid sitting on the heating grate, you know, in Brookline, Mass, with my family, because whoever got the heating grate got the heat, and watching Carol Burnett, and how she was television comedy to me for a while, and the fact that I just spent an hour with her and had a mind meld, and I'm practically crying.