The Need to Read
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The Need to Read
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Talking or writing about the things you're interested in is a good way to generate new ideas. When you try to put ideas into words, a missing idea creates a sort of vacuum that draws it out of you. Indeed, there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.
from How to Do Great Work
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- There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking differently from your peers.
from How to Think for Yourself by bad time
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- The place to start looking for ideas is things you need. There must be things you need.
from How to Get Startup Ideas by Paul Graham
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- If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial.
from Putting Ideas Into Words by [
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- That kind of writing is easier to read, and the easier something is to read, the more deeply readers will engage with it. The less energy they expend on your prose, the more they'll have left for your ideas.
from Write Simply by Paul Graham
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