Reminds me of a group I oversaw years ago. One of my staff would dutifully write anything and everything he heard in the meetings in his notes.
One day I clued in the rest of the team that I was going to see “if Jim was listening or just writing”, so in the middle of a discussion, I said something that, on the face of it, sounded normal, but was utter gibberish. About 30 seconds later, I “got distracted”, then asked Jim what I had just said. He read the gibberish, WORD FOR WORD, then turned bright red as soon as he realized it.
I think we cured him of his “write first, think later” phase...
You sound like a really fun guy to work for.