In its own way this is quite a profound piece on writing. I like the basic idea that you needn't know the goal of a piece of writing when you set out, but you

In its own way this is quite a profound piece on writing. I like the basic idea that you needn't know the goal of a piece of writing when you set out, but you learn to edit it. Some people are going to try to connect that with the way startups iterate. Perhaps that is right, and iterating is a form of editing, but this doesn't illuminate the insight. The actual examples he gives serve to make the idea clearer.