[stefanha]

It reads like a patent. Patents enumerate all sorts of possible cases, some of them overlapping, some of them disjoint. Patents do this to claim as much of the idea space as possible, maximizing the reach of the patent.

"It's this and it's also that, and that, and that" isn't a great way to communicate an idea. Just explain the idea instead of brain dumping all possible manifestations of it.

[da-bacon]

These are notes he typed up, maybe for himself and maybe to share with others. Doing this is a highly effective way to clarify your own thinking. Most of his ideas are listed are mundane, but others, like where he predicts something like quantum computers years before that became apparent are pretty cool to see.