Putting Ideas into Words
A pg essay is a work of modern art these days; I think he distills so much that it ends up taking a real effort to reconstruct meaning out of what’s left.<p>Let’s see if I got the message:<p>* writing is difficult.<p>* writing about a topic forces you to test your knowledge of that topic.<p>* you often learn about the topic, and that often changes how you view that topic.<p>* the reader should write more with the explicit purpose of learning about a topic.<p>And the killer point:<p>* if you haven’t written about a topic, you can’t know it well.<p>I wonder if writing comments on websites counts.