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If the benefit of writing was primarily to focus your thoughts, I think everyone would be enjoying this benefit. After all, we constantly send email informing p
by omarhaneef 7y ago
If the benefit of writing was primarily to focus your thoughts, I think everyone would be enjoying this benefit. After all, we constantly send email informing people of things we are about to do or have done.
Perhaps the benefit is closer to advertising. As Buffet is supposed to have said, if you don’t write it’s like winking in the dark.
- swyx 7y agoa quick google shows this quote is about advertising, not writing https://www.google.com/search?q=if+you+don%E2%80%99t+write+it%E2%80%99s+like+winking+in+the+dark&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari https://www.google.com/search?q=if+you+don%E2%80%99t+write+i... (you got me excited so i went to look up source)
- zarkov99 7y agoOnly rarely do you write emails were the message is complex enough that writing will force you to think it through carefully, which is the (very real) benefit the author is referring to. Someone said writing shows you how sloppy your thinking is, and math (and code to a lesser extent) shows you how sloppy your writing is.
- nsomaru 7y ago“Sorry this is so long, I didn’t have time to make it shorter”
- BeetleB 7y ago> Only rarely do you write emails were the message is complex enough that writing will force you to think it through carefully, which is the (very real) benefit the author is referring to. Actually, I used to, and occasionally still do. The problem is that no one reads them. People's attention span is quite short, and they get too many emails. When they see an email with 3+ paragraphs, and they also see they have 20 more emails in the inbox to go through, they just mark the email to read for later, and later never happens.