michael_nielsen

When I began writing seriously, I was surprised by the difficulty I had in writing the truth. I don't mean I was dishonest. I mean sentences & paragraphs are weirdly squirrelly things. They rarely say quite what I believe. Sometimes that remains the case even after 20 revisions!

It changed my appreciation for what it means to speak the truth. On any complex subject, & often on simple ones, it's hard to do well (other than with near-cached thoughts), not because we're dishonest, but because it's difficult to sort our thinking out to that degree of clarity