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.

—Paul Graham

I think that the next phase of my self-education is writing. Here’s why:

Writing generates an error signal: Writing externalizes your thought process, which makes it easier to reflect on which of your thoughts need to improve.

Writing is a form of retrieval practice: Retrieval practice is the best known technique for building and strengthening long-term memory.

These two factors make writing a highly efficient learning technique.

Because I’ve previously had a hard time writing consistently, I’m making a commitment: for the next month (until October 27th, 2024), I will write one blog post every day. They probably won’t be very long (or very good), but I’m going to write them.