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> And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial. So ... music is trivial? Dance is trivial? Sculpture is trivial? I have
by chrisjj 2y ago
> And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial.
So ... music is trivial?
Dance is trivial?
Sculpture is trivial?
I have to say I think P Graham needs to get out more.
- pauln99 2y agoI think he also said somewhere that people mainly disagree with distorted versions of your ideas...
- chrisjj 2y agoFeel free to identify any distortion here.
- cplat 2y agoAs someone who has done a lot of those things (beyond programming), I can assuredly say that "writing about something" is neither a proof of understanding nor a proficiency in a subject. (Case in point, our educational system)
- chrisjj 2y agoQuite so. If indeed all the author's ideas are incomplete until written, his mistake is ascribing this to the power of his writing rather than the limits of his ideation.
- sifar 2y agoTo interpret it more charitably, perhaps each of these things is it's own language and the activities therein akin to writing.