Why write?
Illusion of explanatory depth.<p>Until you write (or otherwise explain), you really don’t know whether you even know what you think you do. We humans tend to over-estimate how well we understand something. We mentally paper over holes in our knowledge and handwave away pesky little details, until we try to explain the thing. Then you realize <i>”Wait, those two ideas aren’t connecting …”</i><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_explanatory_depth" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_explanatory_depth</a><p>The other big reason, for me, is that without writing it soon feels like my head is exploding. So many ideas racing around it feels like I can’t think straight.