"The best online writers are able to make something __sound__ insightful — regardless of whether it’s true, or whether it’s useful."https://commoncog.com/blog/beware-what-sounds-insightful/ …
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Thinking is habitual in the same way piano, juggling, sports are about compressing complex movements into habit. Repetition of the same simple movement is a necessary part of the process.
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10 different pieces of writing using 10 different slightly-wrong "insights" shines light onto the elephant from 10 different directions. Different readers require different lights before they "aha" the elephant via a mix of novelty and repetition.
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"Writers __seem__ smarter because writing forces them to clarify their ideas. Beyond a certain level of competence, the quality of writing becomes the quality of their thinking; conflating the two is why you think writers are smarter than they really are."
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^ Similar to "But You Did That in Thirty Seconds.” “No, It Has Taken Me Forty Years To Do That.” writing can compresses weeks into minutes, projecting a heroic impression vs an IRL chat w/ all its loose threads and miscommunications.
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This is a fair point.
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