What revisiting old notes has taught me so far

Distance creates clarity

Time changes how notes read.

What once felt obvious can feel naive. What felt confusing sometimes becomes clear. Distance reveals patterns that weren’t visible before.

Past thinking as context

Old notes are less about accuracy and more about context.

They show what I believed at a certain moment — and what I didn’t yet understand.

Progress without measurement

Revisiting writing makes progress visible without metrics.

Change appears quietly, in phrasing, in confidence, in what I no longer feel the need to explain.

Keeping everything accessible

Even imperfect notes deserve to remain.

Not because they’re correct, but because they mark where thinking once stood.