Beyond Smart - Paul Graham  ## Metadata - Author: **Paul Graham** - Full Title: Beyond Smart - Category: #articles - URL: http://www.paulgraham.com/smart.html ## Highlights - One of the most surprising ingredients in having new ideas is writing ability. There's a class of new ideas that are best discovered by writing essays and books. And that "by" is deliberate: you don't think of the ideas first, and then merely write them down. There is a kind of thinking that one does by writing, and if you're clumsy at writing, or don't enjoy doing it, that will get in your way if you try to do this kind of thinking ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hh88vmrx91g6knwh2q5afnk8))