People often ask how long I spend on essays. On average about 2 days per printed page. But it varies a lot. "The Refragmentation" (http://paulgraham.com/re.html ) took 3 months, because it required a lot of research, and "Writing, Briefly" (http://paulgraham.com/writing44.html ) took 67 minutes.
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Big +1 to this
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Perhaps I assumed that the writing begins only after having that understanding.
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It's the other way around usually. You think of most of the ideas while writing. That's the origin of the word essay. http://paulgraham.com/essay.html
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^ This is why I blog. My thinking is, if I can write about it clearly, I can understand it better.
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Incidentally, that horribly contorted second sentence is exactly the sort of thing that would get rewritten in an essay.
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Haha I get what you mean.
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I am reminded of two things my advisor, Per Brinch Hansen, used to say, repeatedly: 1) If you can't explain it so that a freshman would understand it, you don't understand it yourself. 2) Papers should be easy to read, not easy to write.
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IOED Illusion of Explantory Depth https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3062901/ … tanks to @_ONeoX for pointing that out
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This worth the translation
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