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Half the ideas that end up in an essay are ones the writer thought of while writing it.

Drawn from what Paul Graham said

Subjectwriting
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writing Prose as thinking: writing well, writing by hand while a model offers to do it, and who will still be able to.

On the topicWhy does writing matter, now that a model can write for you?under our view: Writing is how thinking gets done, not a record of thinking already finished

What Paul Graham actually said

  1. Paul Graham Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
    Half the ideas that end up in an essay will be ones you thought of while you were writing it. Indeed, that's why I write them.

    ↗Putting Ideas into Wordspaulgraham.com

    1 Feb 2022

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