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.Let’s see if I got the message:* writing is difficult.* writing about a topic forces you to test your knowledge of that topic.* you often learn about the topic, and that often changes how you view that topic.* the reader should write more with the explicit purpose of learning about a topic.And the killer point:* if you haven’t written about a topic, you can’t know it well.I wonder if writing comments on websites counts.