> focus on writing content Cory Doctorow has a good take on this recently. It isn't just writing content but getting ideas out there that can later become som

> focus on writing content Cory Doctorow has a good take on this recently. It isn't just writing content but getting ideas out there that can later become something more. [1] Doctorow calls blogging like a Vannevar Bush Memex but publishing as a series of entries that can start to create a better idea and "nucleate". >If you’re a writer or an activist or anyone else engaged in critical synthesis, then the news-stories, ideas, sights and sounds you encounter are liable to tug at your attention: this is a piece of something bigger, and maybe something important. >Every day, I load my giant folder of tabs; zip through my giant collection of RSS feeds; and answer my social telephones — primarily emails and Twitter mentions — and I open each promising fragment in its own tab to read and think about. >If the fragment seems significant, I’ll blog it: I’ll set out the context for why I think this seems important and then describe what it adds to the picture. These repeated acts of public description adds each idea to a supersaturated, subconscious solution of fragmentary elements that have the potential to become something bigger. Every now and again, a few of these fragments will stick to each other and nucleate, crystallizing a substantial, synthetic analysis out of all of those bits and pieces I’ve salted into that solution of potential sources of inspiration. Publishing is better than note taking and there is a rigor to make it readable. However, these don't always have to be complete ideas, they can be part of the idea that is interesting. From there other iterations of new parts of that idea emerge. The writing helps you refine the topic, idea and focus. Similar to how spaced repetition helps you learn or comments help you refine ideas. [2] The ideas are sketches like pre-production, entries are inking like production and then one day a fully fledged post-production quality researched idea/product can emerge. [1] https://doctorow.medium.com/the-memex-method-238c71f2fb46 https://doctorow.medium.com/the-memex-method-238c71f2fb46 [2] https://ncase.me/remember/ https://ncase.me/remember/