Lessons tagged “self-explanation”
2 published lessons with this tag.
perception
Externalize your reasoning chain
Writing out the steps of your thinking exposes gaps invisible from inside your head. Internal reasoning feels continuous — externalized reasoning reveals the jumps, the missing warrants, the unstated assumptions. The reasoning chain you think you have is not the reasoning chain you actually have until you write it down.
perception
Externalize your learning
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.