What Michael Nielsen thinks about writing

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Physicist, writer and researcher, co-author of the standard textbook on quantum computation and quantum information.

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1. 7 Apr 2026

   Our readingYou learn almost nothing from writing you finished in a couple of days; the pieces that took months are the ones you still remember years later.

   Their wordsI've written sometimes 10,000 word essays in you know, a couple of days and I've written them in you know, 3 months or 6 months. Uh I I feel like I did I I didn't learn very much from the ones that that that only took a couple of days.

   ↗Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than usyoutube.com 25th of 26 in this recording