What is handwriting vs typing?

Handwriting vs typing is a concept in personal epistemology: Choose capture tools based on what you will actually use, not what seems most sophisticated.

Example: You buy a premium leather notebook because handwriting 'activates deeper learning.' Three weeks later it sits unopened in your bag while insights evaporate because you didn't want to pull it out on the subway. Meanwhile your colleague captures everything in phone notes — messy, unformatted, but actually used. Six months later she has 400 raw captures feeding her thinking system. You have a beautiful empty notebook and a vague sense that you used to have good ideas.

This concept is part of Phase 3 (Capture Systems) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for capture systems.