Re:Writing as a Thinking Tool
by RecycledEle on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:10PM
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I drove my teachers nuts with my unconventional writing process. I start with a blank word processor document, and start making notes. Then I rearrange them, and finally I start turning it into an essay. My teachers stood over me, demanding that I stop misbehaving, and write an essay from start to finish. I could not do that. My brain does not work that way. I can not keep enough things in my head to organize a few pages that way.
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I was once thrown out of a job interview after their secretary yelled at me for what seemed like 5 minutes because I was filling out a form from the shortest blank to the longest blank rather than from the top to the bottom. I had experienced such a trying day, that I just could not bring myself to fill out anything but the next shortest field. All the while, this crazy lady was yelling at me as I had to stand at her desk in front of a room of HR scum/manager scum and job applicants.
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I classify linear thinking as one useful way to check if something makes sense, not the only way to think.
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I was once thrown out of a job interview after their secretary yelled at me for what seemed like 5 minutes because I was filling out a form from the shortest blank to the longest blank rather than from the top to the bottom. I had experienced such a trying day, that I just could not bring myself to fill out anything but the next shortest field. All the while, this crazy lady was yelling at me as I had to stand at her desk in front of a room of HR scum/manager scum and job applicants.
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I classify linear thinking as one useful way to check if something makes sense, not the only way to think.