Writing is the Thinking

Remember: Writing is the thinking. The more you write, the more notes you take, and the better of a thinker you become. You’ll read better with better questions in your mind. Without writing, there is no thinking, no progress.

From Smart Note Taking:

Writing is not the outcome of thinking; it is the medium in which thought occurs.

On the note of Writing Effectively, Larry McEnerney is saying similar things about bringing value to the readers. As well as Nick Milo with Linking Your Thinking (LYT).

Another who says similar things is Tim Ferriss with How to Use Writing to Sharpen Your Thinking (Transcript).

Steal like an artist Trilogy (Austin Kleon) calls it Steal like an artist Trilogy (Austin Kleon):

We figure it out in the act of making it. Not before.

Or as Paul Graham quoted:

If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking. Leslie Lamport

Most of the time, when we write, we actually edit. So more than writing, it’s editing we do.

You could speak to text, but you can’t edit what you said and therefore not think. You can only create a brain dump. Boilerplate YT goes ahead and makes the whole case for editing = thinking. And, ultimately, leading to Vim Motions, and thinking of the speed of though.

Editor Environment for Writing: Wordprocessor

Also that’s why I created NeoVim as a WordProcessor on wp.ssp.sh for editing at the speed of thoughts on my My Distraction-Free Typewriter (Micro Journal) and laptop.

Origin: Smart Note Taking
References: Still Writing (Dani Shapiro), Writing is Editing
Created 2022-11-08