Writing
To find my voice . It took staring down my 50th birthday to believe I had a valuable perspective to share. My writing to that point had been private musings in a journal or business memos.
Robert Breen • Why Blogs Matter
It can be translated. It can be produced and consumed at variable speeds. It is asynchronous. It can be compared, diffed, clustered, corrected, summarized and filtered algorithmically. It permits multiparty editing. It permits branching conversations, lurking, annotation, quoting, reviewing, summarizing, structured responses, exegesis, even fan... See more
graydon2 • Always Bet on Text
“I don’t like to write, but I take great pleasure in having written—in having finally made an arrangement that has a certain inevitability, like the solution to a mathematical problem. Perhaps in no other line of work is delayed gratification so delayed.”
Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
William Zinsser in Writing To Learn
So the difference between the first and second type of writing can be found in this simple reframe:
When you are writing-to-think, do it as if one other person will read it.
That’s it. Not tens. Not hundreds. Just one.
There are 2 reasons why you want to imagine that just one person will read it:
(1) It will lower any pressure for this piece to
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