I don’t like that the written transcripts of the videos don’t read as well as written posts would. Or at least that’s what I think. They contain a lot more fluff, which is more tolerable when speaking, but less so in writing.
someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial.
I’m saying thinking well is a necessary condition for writing really well, not a sufficient one.
You have written a lot, but maybe what you notice in your video transcripts is that one of the effects of writing is missing. I don’t think it has to be literal writing. Generalizing Paul Graham, I think that for clear thinking you need to put ideas in a form that forces precision and makes them grow into more. The grow into more seems to be clearly the case with the engagement and the posts here. But video often doesn’t have the precision—maybe that’s what shows in the fluff?
Paul Graham discusses that good thinking requires good writing and vice versa.
You have written a lot, but maybe what you notice in your video transcripts is that one of the effects of writing is missing. I don’t think it has to be literal writing. Generalizing Paul Graham, I think that for clear thinking you need to put ideas in a form that forces precision and makes them grow into more. The grow into more seems to be clearly the case with the engagement and the posts here. But video often doesn’t have the precision—maybe that’s what shows in the fluff?