[Rumperuu]

All intellectual activity is based around the representation of ideas through imperfect media. My personally-preferred medium is writing and one's writing, as with all other skills, improves with repetition. Bouncing ideas around in one's head is all well and good, but it can get tiring. Taking the time to express those thoughts in a medium of choice allows one to exorcise them from the mind. Exposing them, as I do here, to a potential audience (and the attendant risk of criticism) ensures that any such idea will have been thoroughly analysed, and any potential illogicalities headed off in advance. By consolidating disparate thoughts through writing, I improve my understanding of them and my ability to discuss them in person. Other benefits, like being able to point people towards certain pieces for my thoughts on certain topics, are only bonuses—ultimately, writing is my deadlifting.

And, to perhaps make the point more pithily, that is a quote from a blog post I wrote four years ago and which better expresses my thoughts than anything I could have come up with just now.