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so this book also will be my record of important thoughts. The introduction also summarizes the first 3 quarters of 1978 in Albuquerque and shows great stability and focus in contrast to the unbridled searching of 1977.

The other colored sections of the multi-colored diary are written on given dates as small essays as follows:

Pink.. October 78 to early January 79
work compensation (self)employment managing Biz school
goal was to achieve social and intellectual skills
Brown.. October 78 April 79 July 79
finance investing responsibility budgeting emotions
Green... November December 79
social Chip my gay life leaving HBS more self-assessment
Blue... written during Summer 80
cash analysis & summary categorized checkbook budgeting discarded 10 sheets in 10/80 hazily written 8/79 before HBS
Yellow... Spring and early summer 80 in O.C.
getting setup in O.C. working playing

Again these early writings were very helpful for analyzing and tracking my life at the time. I have no interest in using them right now except for the studying the evolution of my format. However the self assessment in the green section (based on the Lakeside days) is especially interesting even now.

Note that it is not possible to make an ultimate summary of any given period. The interpretation would clearly change over time so I have held onto all contemporaneous writings from the past rather than discard them. Nothing can replace the actual current writing of a certain time. The motive to discard is to forget past trivia or dump messy format much more than just to prevent embarrassments or even blackmail. Yet this advantage must be weighed against having detailed information that can be very helpful in the future. Consequentially I have so far kept all my diaries.

This paper will not try to summarize the content of old diaries as that has been done as needed over the years. Instead I mainly want to show:
how the form of my diaries has developed over the years
how it has paralleled the evolution of my personal accounting and
how it should continue in the future.

This interest is part of my study of the philosophy of intelligence. How much information and in what form do we need outside of our brains to be able to act as intelligently as possible? Can computers and metamathematics help?