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Writing on its own will bring your thoughts to the surface where you can really think about them. Doing it on a blog lets others help you think about them. Blo

• patio11 15y ago
  Blogging is crowdsourcing introspection. I like that line. Often, the act of writing something forces me to commit to a particular thought rather than the Heisenberg-uncertainty haze that is usually bouncing around in my brain, and it is often the case that once the thought has been nailed down it looks a lot less compelling than it did when it was still a probability function.
  • matwood 15y ago
    Often, the act of writing something forces me to commit to a particular thought This is the main reason I write things down. Writing something down forces me to commit and defend a certain idea, even if only to myself. Writing it down for the world to see forces me to defend the idea to additional level of scrutiny. In short, writing something down helps me keep from BSing myself.