> Is it something to do with writing being much slower, therefore you have to think about it more while recording it? I am not of any importance as a person, b

> Is it something to do with writing being much slower, therefore you have to think about it more while recording it? I am not of any importance as a person, but my hypothesis is exactly this. For most of the HN audience, I expect that typing is well within the 70-100wpm range if not more, and at that rate, it becomes much faster to get something out of one's mind and into a system that it doesn't take time to "buffer" and linger. I somehow personally doubt that actually forming the words on paper is enough to create memories, but I suppose anything is possible given how humans have evolved so far.