Writing Is Thinking

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I saw Steven Sinofsky use the phrase “Writing is Thinking” recently and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. In his excellent annotated Twitter thread (what a time to be alive), he talks about the importance of writing as it relates to organizations and processes. I believe in this concept so completely that I’ll take the importance of writing a step further: I find it valuable to write even if only for my own benefit. Writing is a linear process that forces a tangle of loose connections in your brain through a narrow aperture exposing them to much greater scrutiny. In my experience, discussion expands the space of possibilities while writing reduces it to its most essential components. Of course even when I write for my own benefit, it is undoubtedly a bonus that at the end I have a document which I can easily share to invite critiques or enlist support. I know of no more scalable way to engage a large audience than the written word. Given that, I thought it might be h

Writing Is Thinking I saw Steven Sinofsky use the phrase “ Writing is Thinking ” recently and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. In his excellent annotated Twitter thread (what a time to be alive), he talks about the importance of writing as it relates to organizations and processes. I believe in this concept so completely that I’ll take the importance of writing a step further: I find it valuable to write even if only for my own benefit. Writing is a linear process that forces a tangle of loose connections in your brain through a narrow aperture exposing them to much greater

Writing Is Thinking

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