Gems

[Michael Tomasello]

As an erstwhile diary keeper, may I put in a plea for some quality
control of the gems.  It's been my experience that people's memory for
the exact formulation of utterances is shockingly poor (and there is
even psycholinguistic evidence on this).  Granted, an especially
interesting utterance is more memorable, but I would vote for only
including in the gem files things that were written down immediately,
not things remembered from many months or years ago.  At the very least,
there should be a comment line reporting the lag between utterance and
recording.

Mike Tomasello