“You need to write in order to think well.”
Paul Graham
Writing is often the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about.
Shane Parrish
Whenever people find out that I run a blog, their first response is usually, “Blogs still exist?!”
After all, writing seems like a hopelessly outdated practice especially in the era of TikTok and ChatGPT. Nobody has the patience to read (not to mention write) 1,000-word articles. Writing is slow, tedious, and difficult, and not even appreciated by most people. Furthermore, I work in sales, a profession that’s inherently verbal by nature: I talk to customers, to internal teams, to managers, and sometimes, I talk to myself (more often than I admit).
But even in a job that places so much emphasis on speaking and pitching, writing is still the single biggest lever that helped me to learn new skills, think clearer, and communicate...