writing

“Writing is a tool for thinking, and if you can't get compound interest on your thoughts, if you can't build up a thought structure over time and continually go back and revisit it and revise it, you're limited to just what you can hold in your head.”

“Write down some of the core insights in your own words. Just that action alone is going to crystallize the thought, test your understanding of it, and help you remember it later.”

“Forces you to really think through your ideas and to connect your ideas together. You can't hide sloppy thinking. And so it forces rigor, and I also think it creates clarity.”

“Ideas have this illusory nature, which is, on the surface, they seem really good, but when you force yourself to sit down and write the idea down and really unpack it, either they don't seem as good as they do on the surface, or By comparison to all of the oth…”