Good Writing

Graham reinforcing that "writing is thinking"…

So it's not quite right to say that better sounding writing is more likely to be true. Better sounding writing is more likely to be internally consistent. If the writer is honest, internal consistency and truth converge.

But while we can't safely conclude that beautiful writing is true, it's usually safe to conclude the converse: something that seems clumsily written will usually have gotten the ideas wrong too.

… and sloppy writing is likely sloppy thinking. See also: bullet points. 😬