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Re:Writing as a Thinking Tool by beej71 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @12:39PM (#50415335)
A common refrain for teachers and writers is that they learned so much producing their work. You think you know it, and then you go to teach it and realize how much you didn't know.

I'm a big fan of marbled composition books. They're cheap and durable enough. You can write in them without a table. I have 5-6 of them going at once for various tasks. And somehow (for me) the ideas flow more freely longhand than they do at the keyboard. When full, you can cut the spine off with a box cutter and scan it. G4 compression loses the color, but makes really small PDFs.

It's easy to produce better written content than an LLM. And that's good for the reader and the writer.

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