“I have a lot of creative notebooks… I get some of my best insights that I end up pulling out of there and putting into scripts for episodes.”

David Senra · Lessons from Napoleon, Steve Jobs, Joan of Arc & Other Leaders | Ben Wilson

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Keeps multiple waste notebooks (personal, work, creative) to dump unfiltered thoughts, then later mines them for episode script ideas

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