One of the things I'm happiest about since slowly recovering from burnout is leveraging my slightly manic creative energy and obsessive note taking to do software design. I spend a lot of time in grasshopper-mode, bouncing from idea to idea, weaving threads together, writing everything down in my sketchbooks, trying to capture as much details as I can so that I will be able to retrace my steps. I usually fill one 60 page sketchbook every month or so. This habit came from when I was learning h...