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The act of writing generates new thoughts rather than merely documenting existing ones. Writing is not transcription — it is the primary mechanism through which vague intuitions become precise understanding.
What you learn but do not write down you will learn again and again. The act of writing about what you learned is not documentation — it is a second act of learning that encodes deeper than the first.
Explaining your knowledge to someone else forces you to integrate it.