@dzhavat
- I have been thinking along the same lines. I was about to write something about writing but I saw your post and I thought I'd rather share my thoughts here. Over the years, I have found writing to be extremely beneficial. I see writing as a tool for organizing my own thoughts. That, in itself, is a powerful thing. Most of our thoughts get lost in blabber, stupid arguments and not listening to others or just being adamant and not changing our points of view - why? we don't listen.
Well, writing about something brings back all that you have learnt about something from your glacier archive-like disk to your super high-speed RAM. That's the effect that it has. Once it is there, you can sort it quickly. Obviously, in-memory stuff is costly because memory is costly. Therefore writing is costly. I ask for forgiveness for that bad analogy. Moving on.
The process of writing is great for learning new things. Not only that, I think that it's a great reinforcer of the knowledge you already possess. On different platforms, I keep writing these posts about tech that I have worked on - I don't think I have ever felt that I have wasted my time writing about that. I always end up learning something new. And now, once it is written by me - there's no compulsion to remember all that stuff because I know that there's a braindump of my thoughts somewhere in the cyberworld that I could always go back to.
All in all, a great experience if you ask me. Kudos for posting this!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Really like the part where you say that once something is written, there's no need to remember it anymore. One can simply go back to the post.
Sometimes I have an idea for a post/app/site/project/whatever that just gets stuck in my head. If I can't stop thinking about it for a couple of days, I know it's a good idea to work on or at least write about it. If I don't get it out of my head in some way, it just keeps coming back. Writing is also a good way to get it out. Then I can immediately forget it and only remember where to find it in case I need it later. Weird but it's true :D
Thanks for reading my post. Keep writing. Stay safe :)
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@dzhavat - I have been thinking along the same lines. I was about to write something about writing but I saw your post and I thought I'd rather share my thoughts here. Over the years, I have found writing to be extremely beneficial. I see writing as a tool for organizing my own thoughts. That, in itself, is a powerful thing. Most of our thoughts get lost in blabber, stupid arguments and not listening to others or just being adamant and not changing our points of view - why? we don't listen.
Well, writing about something brings back all that you have learnt about something from your glacier archive-like disk to your super high-speed RAM. That's the effect that it has. Once it is there, you can sort it quickly. Obviously, in-memory stuff is costly because memory is costly. Therefore writing is costly. I ask for forgiveness for that bad analogy. Moving on.
The process of writing is great for learning new things. Not only that, I think that it's a great reinforcer of the knowledge you already possess. On different platforms, I keep writing these posts about tech that I have worked on - I don't think I have ever felt that I have wasted my time writing about that. I always end up learning something new. And now, once it is written by me - there's no compulsion to remember all that stuff because I know that there's a braindump of my thoughts somewhere in the cyberworld that I could always go back to.
All in all, a great experience if you ask me. Kudos for posting this!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Really like the part where you say that once something is written, there's no need to remember it anymore. One can simply go back to the post.
Sometimes I have an idea for a post/app/site/project/whatever that just gets stuck in my head. If I can't stop thinking about it for a couple of days, I know it's a good idea to work on or at least write about it. If I don't get it out of my head in some way, it just keeps coming back. Writing is also a good way to get it out. Then I can immediately forget it and only remember where to find it in case I need it later. Weird but it's true :D
Thanks for reading my post. Keep writing. Stay safe :)