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In your head > out loud > on paper > to someone else. "First you communicate with yourself." - Peter Drucker I remember Drucker laying out this hierarchy for

In your head > out loud > on paper > to someone else. "First you communicate with yourself." - Peter Drucker I remember Drucker laying out this hierarchy for communication in his tome on management. Each step is progressively harder. Something that made sense in your head, you might not be able to articulate on paper. Something you just wrote may not communicate to someone else. IME, it is spot on.

Invictus0 6y ago
You might want to replace > (greater than) with -> (arrow), I was confused at first.
- heymijo 6y ago
  I see how that could be confusing. I am unfortunately past my edit window but thanks for the feedback.
  - lubosm 6y ago
    Hah, it looks like there's more C/C++ programmers than Shell bashers in this thread :-)
globular-toast 6y ago
I'm not talking about writing, though. Writing is certainly harder than talking. But I'm talking about scrawling notes. Drawing pictures of data structures, abstract flow diagrams etc. It's not for reading. It's not even something I'll read again later, although it can be something I use again and again while I'm working on it.