> "However, more often than discovering that your ideas are wrong, you will discover something different: that you do not know what you think. Sure, you have some vague idea, and you believe that there is a chain of reasoning that leads to a certain conclusion. But what you will discover is that this chain of reasoning is mostly not existent. At best, it has many holes and maybe leads not where you think it does. This discovery is, of course, very unpleasant and sometimes even painful."
This part does a particularly good job of explaining something that's been on the tip of my tongue for a while, but I could not have expressed it as clearly (in a rather curious, recursive way, my not being able to express it, is what is being described).
The article also dances around the idea of the Generation Effect [0], which is, in my opinion, another great reason to write - even without an audience.
The quoted section also reminded me of my experience with coding. I sometimes think I've thought through the entire implementation. But when i begin coding, I notice the gaps in my implementation or cases that I hadn't considered earlier.
> "However, more often than discovering that your ideas are wrong, you will discover something different: that you do not know what you think. Sure, you have some vague idea, and you believe that there is a chain of reasoning that leads to a certain conclusion. But what you will discover is that this chain of reasoning is mostly not existent. At best, it has many holes and maybe leads not where you think it does. This discovery is, of course, very unpleasant and sometimes even painful."
This part does a particularly good job of explaining something that's been on the tip of my tongue for a while, but I could not have expressed it as clearly (in a rather curious, recursive way, my not being able to express it, is what is being described).
The article also dances around the idea of the Generation Effect [0], which is, in my opinion, another great reason to write - even without an audience.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_effect