I have always held the contention that writing is a great way to reflect on ideas, keep the mind sharp and possibly explore parts of the thought-tree that may have not been explored before (or worse, pruned away). Everything should be explored and reasoned.
I have generally seen a direct correlation between:
- Writing with semi-regularity and
- Improved vocabulary and syntactic structure while speaking.
Now, Paul Graham verified many of my postulates about writing through his writing. But he didn’t share the same views as me on the correlation between writing the speaking. Or maybe he did, and I skipped over that part.
Personally, I do think I am a decent speaker; especially in an extempore situation. I did debate in high school. I frequently get into long discussions at bars. I once taught the basics of computer science (going from logic gates to binary to the computational model) to an off-shift waiter who later expressed the desire to learn more programming as I had interested him in the subject quite a bit.
Many of these blog posts have been extempore; at least until now. One of the motivations of this blog is for me to slow down this pace a little and throw in a little more reflectance. That way, I will be learning something new.
The Rolex Life 
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