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Write more, at least at work

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I put a lot of effort in polishing my documents, as if I try to perfect each of them. (There has been at least one recent instance where this has dragged on literally for weeks.) That leads to two problems:

  1. The folks reading my documents aren’t English experts or generally smart enough to differentiate between a polished vs a somewhat half-baked document.
  2. At the end of the day, how many ideas I produced matters more than how good my English was in them. Moreover, if I have a lot of documents at end of the day, who will go through all of them to know the difference.
  3. It takes time to polish these documents and that leaves me less time to write more of them.

I should start focusing on creating a lot of documents and only put minimal time in polishing them. Maybe do two sittings: one, to jot down all the ideas quickly, and two, maybe a day later, polish them a little.