Another issue around thorough review is the idea of noting down parts of a novel abstraction. This is very hard for me, long story short. Quite hard. But, when pondering the spdlog project, I realised it was a helpful step for learning thorough review. One might avoid note-taking to practice one's memory: but if the problem is in the actual behavior, i.e. simply spending time sustaining a behavior, then notes are a useful tool one wants to be able to use, and can increase how much success one gets. Success can help a lot with learning things, now, for me, and when the number of psychological issues I'm coping with at once is reduced, I can make much more progress. Having written some parts of thoroughly solving a software problem in my second post in this thread, I may be able to draw on those parts a little so as to make thorough notes about a software system, when severely struggling to engage it. Maybe thorough review + notes could help me engage random writes? I'm not sure. But I've really spent a lot of time trying to defend my habit of practicing building logical things, and it's something that's often ready and interesting for me to do.