# The Purpose Of Writing

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## What Jamie wrote

One of the benefits I feel I get from writing the Weekly Thing and in general writing on the web is this.

> This essay is my way of saying: Start writing! You will learn as much about the topic as about yourself. You will be shocked by how often you trick yourself into falsely thinking that you have understood something. You will write and think, “Oh, is this why I think that? I didn’t know that.”

However, I will qualify that I think this is only true for writing at some length. Tweeting is like popcorn for writing. I don't see much of any of these values coming from that.

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