I carry a personal notebook and a reporting notebook. I have been going through the personal ones. I keep finding traces of The Hardest Job in the World from long before I started writing it. Here are some notes from March, 2014: (It could have just been a manifesto!)
Fascinating, John. Nice touch here by including the early stages of what you came up with eventually. The process is always an interesting one and it’s amazing to see how brief snippets of thoughts eventually lead to full exposes, anecdotes and good analysis. Happy to see this as a feature.