I love cursive, even as a programmer who touch types on a keyboard most of the day. Cursive is just so comfy and looks so nice. But I'm also incredibly thankful that I'm as proficient with a keyboard as I am.
I'm never more than an Alt-Tab away from a terminal, and have some nice and simple aliases for creating new plaintext notes, or accessing old ones. Yet I also need to keep a notebook or piece of paper closeby for handwritten sketches, notes, diagrams, etc. I studied maths and physics, where solving problems with pen and paper is simply how you do things. Come to think of it, I'm quite thankful for that part, because it is a powerful skill to have developed for managing ideas.
I have friends who are bad at handwriting, and who hate it and avoid it for that reason. Some of them claim that handwriting is a useless skill. I also have parents who are bad at typing, and who prefer handwriting for that reason. They do see the utility of touch typing, however.
I know both well, and value both very highly. I maybe won't be so strict on my kids as to force them to learn a writing style designed for pens we no longer use, but will encourage them to try it, and to at least get comfortable with writing by hand.
About all I end up sketching is geometry/trigonometry and that's exceedingly rare these days. Programming classes was math-heavy, but in more than 30 years of doing it for a living I've never used more than pretty simple math. Programming is far more logic than math. There have been a couple of occasions where calculus would have been useful--but googling the answer or brute-forcing the answer was far faster than scraping the rust off my calculus.
I'm never more than an Alt-Tab away from a terminal, and have some nice and simple aliases for creating new plaintext notes, or accessing old ones. Yet I also need to keep a notebook or piece of paper closeby for handwritten sketches, notes, diagrams, etc. I studied maths and physics, where solving problems with pen and paper is simply how you do things. Come to think of it, I'm quite thankful for that part, because it is a powerful skill to have developed for managing ideas.
I have friends who are bad at handwriting, and who hate it and avoid it for that reason. Some of them claim that handwriting is a useless skill. I also have parents who are bad at typing, and who prefer handwriting for that reason. They do see the utility of touch typing, however.
I know both well, and value both very highly. I maybe won't be so strict on my kids as to force them to learn a writing style designed for pens we no longer use, but will encourage them to try it, and to at least get comfortable with writing by hand.