My favorite ref on the topic. From 📖 How to Take Smart Notes:
Richard Feynman once had a visitor in his office, a historian who wanted to interview him. When he spotted Feynman’s notebooks, he said how delighted he was to see such “wonderful records of Feynman’s thinking.” “No, no!” Feynman protested. “They aren’t a record of my thinking process. They are my thinking process. I actually did the work on the paper.” “Well,” the historian said, “the work was done in your head, but the record of it is still here.” “No, it’s not a record, not really. It’s working. You have to work on paper, and this is the paper.”
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Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is — Dick Guindon (cartoonist).
People who write well, think well — David Ogilvy (The “Father of Advertising”). See Writing tips.
Writing is the thinking process. That’s why copying straight from Foundational models is of no help (but they can be good assistants, just be careful since they add a lot of fluff).
And by no means a conversation works without print. From 🗞️ The Purpose of Writing:
Link to originalHaving a conversation with someone else about your ideas is only superior to writing about them under two conditions. First, if you have already thought about your ideas on the topic a lot and have carefully examined your chain of reasoning, which, as I have already explained, is best done in writing. And second, if the other person is smart, has thought about the topic a lot as well, and values truth over consensus. If, and only if, both of these conditions are met, a conversation can be more fruitful in sharpening your ideas than writing about them. There are other advantages to conversations with regards to creativity, thought-provoking impulses, and inspiration, but for thinking deeply about a topic, writing is superior to a conversation
My own notes about writing in software: Software documentation