[chaos95]

It's a good way to crystallise and cement new knowledge; especially if you're in a work situation where you don't get many opportunities to exchange knowledge with your colleagues.

I'm lucky enough at the moment to be in a very collaborative team, where knowledge sharing is just part of daily interactions; but I've been in positions in the past where those interactions were not present and I found that writing howtos and reports on experiments was a great way to review the things I'd learned.