Bits of string

In Joan Didion’s essay collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem she describes her notebooks as full of “bits of the mind’s string too short to use.” Here is a list of lists of bits of string.

Note: I do not require that whatever I put here is correct nor do I require that it should be useful. I aim for eventual correctness and potential usefulness with no guarantees. This is to lower the barrier for writing.

• (202508181355) academia
• (202506231327) compositional data
• (202508281422) computers
• (202508181346) vim

Leftover string:

It’s all been put somewhere