I tried to learn to write before I had important things to say and it basically didn’t work. I had to go through the work of coming up with genuinely valuable ideas and then wreck the presentation of those ideas via bad writing. My more recent publications, I’m actually very happy with the writing.
The first couple times a surgeon does an operation, patient outcomes suck. Alas, there’s no other way to make experienced surgeons. My guess is that writing is similar, and I’m very glad that important experiences and ideas are way less valuable than patients: I would emotionally struggle with becoming a surgeon.
I tried to learn to write before I had important things to say and it basically didn’t work. I had to go through the work of coming up with genuinely valuable ideas and then wreck the presentation of those ideas via bad writing. My more recent publications, I’m actually very happy with the writing.
The first couple times a surgeon does an operation, patient outcomes suck. Alas, there’s no other way to make experienced surgeons. My guess is that writing is similar, and I’m very glad that important experiences and ideas are way less valuable than patients: I would emotionally struggle with becoming a surgeon.