If you’re smart, you probably skip some steps when solving problems. That’s fine, but don’t skip writing them down! A skipped step will confuse somebody. Maybe that “somebody” needed to hear your idea.
Am reminded of those odious papers or physics textbooks that will jump three/four steps between two equations with some handwaving “it’s trivial” “obviously” or “left as an exercise to the reader”. As the reader, the exercise has sometimes wasted hours or days of my research time that could have been spent doing actual new research rather than trying to divine what the Hell were the original authors thinking or assuming that they didn’t write down explicitly.
Am reminded of those odious papers or physics textbooks that will jump three/four steps between two equations with some handwaving “it’s trivial” “obviously” or “left as an exercise to the reader”. As the reader, the exercise has sometimes wasted hours or days of my research time that could have been spent doing actual new research rather than trying to divine what the Hell were the original authors thinking or assuming that they didn’t write down explicitly.