Zettel Caston: I tend to interpret a lot of things through the lens of this theory, the cybernetics theory. You keep returning to the same state in the system over and over, in a loop. The act of having to go back and find the right place to put it was actually like it closed a loop in a really interesting way. One of the insights that I've gleaned from cybernetics is that sort of nonlinear energy in systems always comes from feedback. So my takeaway from this is that if my note-taking practice felt like a slog, it meant that there was a broken feedback loop somewhere.