I am actually in awe of writing! Human speech itself is amazing, with no other animal having anything close to it. And then we have writing, where we can enco

I am actually in awe of writing! Human speech itself is amazing, with no other animal having anything close to it. And then we have writing, where we can encode this speech where people distant from you in time and space and read and understand it. And here is the kicker: it is a pretty universal human ability now! In the past, maybe 1% or fewer of a population could write. Now, we have almost universal literacy throughout the developed world, and a global literacy rate above 85%. I find all this amazing.